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I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.

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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'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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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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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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It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
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Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!
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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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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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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 think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
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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 difference between expectations and aspirations.
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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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Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.
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Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.
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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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You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
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There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.
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The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
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Why play a chord when you can play one note?
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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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