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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.

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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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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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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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The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
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Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
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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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Why play a chord when you can play one note?
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It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
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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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I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
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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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You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
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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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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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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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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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Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!
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No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you.
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Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.
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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'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.
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