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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
Musician
Singer
Songwriter
Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
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Glasgow
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Listened
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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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The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.
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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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I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.
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Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.
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Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!
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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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You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
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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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I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
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There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.
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Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
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You can always have it better. If you try... [This is the right attitude:] Never to feel [completely] satisfied, always to want to do something better!
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I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.
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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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