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Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.

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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Songwriter
Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
Kitchen
Lots
Characters
Wind
Working
Unemployable
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Vagrants
Kitchens
Traditionally

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I really want it to have an impact on the world. I want to be in a town on the other side of the world, and somebody walks up and says, 'That music you made in Glasgow, I listened to it every day, and it moved me.'
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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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Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.
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It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
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Although they might not admit it, I think girls are very aware of the impact that they're having. But they never feel it themselves, and it's impossible to explain. It's like trying to tell a blind person what yellow is.
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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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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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There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.
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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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Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.
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You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
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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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A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.
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Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!
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Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.
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I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
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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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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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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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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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