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There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast.
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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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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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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Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.
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I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.
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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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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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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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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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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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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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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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Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.
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There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.
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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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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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If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.
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It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
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There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.
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Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.
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