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Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.
Alex Kapranos
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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Guitarist
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Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
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Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.
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There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.
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Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party.
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The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
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It's easy to be lazy when there's food lying around backstage or there's a fast-food joint a couple blocks away. But if you walk a little further, ask around a bit, of course there are exciting things to discover.
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If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.
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It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.
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I have always been fascinated by the concept of the villain and the hero being in one person.
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There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.
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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
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Cinema, which is influenced by every single part of life, is direct and reaches you immediately. And writing - the best writing is complex ideas communicated concisely. And music - if it's a good tune, make sure people can bloody hear it!
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Anyone can play an instrument if you show them how to move their limbs, lips or fingers the right way. It's irrelevant. What is relevant is personality, energy, creativity and disturbing sense of humour.
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I really want it to have an impact on the world. I want to be in a town on the other side of the world, and somebody walks up and says, 'That music you made in Glasgow, I listened to it every day, and it moved me.'
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I find American football quite ridiculous generally. I don't understand it. It looks like a lot of guys dressed up as spacemen shouting at each other.
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It's fine to indulge yourself so long as you don't try and foist it on the rest of the world.
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I want to change and try new ideas - allowing your sonic identity to evolve in your music and not being afraid of that. You see musicians hit upon something that works, and then go, Let's keep doing that for 10 years. And that idea kind of terrifies me a little bit. It becomes like a day job then.
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