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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.

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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You can't write for the cultural environment - if you do that, by the time it comes out, that cultural environment has passed. You have to be aiming for something that's original - that's the only way you can have any kind of impact.
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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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A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.
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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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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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Although they might not admit it, I think girls are very aware of the impact that they're having. But they never feel it themselves, and it's impossible to explain. It's like trying to tell a blind person what yellow is.
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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'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
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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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Why play a chord when you can play one note?
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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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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'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.
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It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
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For me upward social mobility is possible through talent and hard work and is a glowing endorsement of the benefits of living in a modern capitalist society. It's not so much evidence of a meritocracy, as evidence of healthy nepotism. Nepotism is at the core of a good group dynamic. A good group dynamic is at the core of rock'n'roll.
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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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People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.
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You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
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