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If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.
Alex Kapranos
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I want to change and try new ideas - allowing your sonic identity to evolve in your music and not being afraid of that. You see musicians hit upon something that works, and then go, Let's keep doing that for 10 years. And that idea kind of terrifies me a little bit. It becomes like a day job then.
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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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The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
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I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
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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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I have always been fascinated by the concept of the villain and the hero being in one person.
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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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Boho to me is a first-year student who's just discovered the tie-dye shop.
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You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
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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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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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