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If I was a fan of someone as a teenager, then it's OK for me to feel completely in awe when I meet them.
Alex Kapranos
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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
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Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
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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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Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
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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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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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Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.
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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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The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.
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I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
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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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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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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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Why play a chord when you can play one note?
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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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Boho to me is a first-year student who's just discovered the tie-dye shop.
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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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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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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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There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.
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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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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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