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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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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Guitarist
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Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
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The Beatles were huge for me, ... I used to jump around the room to the red album, the one with all the early hits on it. It made you feel euphoric. It was a sensation I couldn't get from anything else, whether it was playing football, swimming or even seeing 'Star Wars.'
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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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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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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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Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!
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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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Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.
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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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Maybe 'Can't Stop Feeling' and 'Turn It On' we'll just release as singles. It's a thing The Beatles used to do which I really loved, the idea of releasing something as a single completely on its own.
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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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People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.
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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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Why play a chord when you can play one note?
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Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
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You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.
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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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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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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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A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.
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I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.
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