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Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!

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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Songwriter
Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
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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's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast.
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I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.
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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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Music should be universal. My life perspective, my lifestyle - I'm not going to impose that on the people that listen to my music. That's kind of a perverse form of snobbery I like to reject.
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I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.
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I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.
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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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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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Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
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No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you.
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Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.
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I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.
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