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People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.

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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Songwriter
Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
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Fashion
Music
People
Fickle
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Musical

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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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If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.
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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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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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It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.
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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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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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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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It's easy to be lazy when there's food lying around backstage or there's a fast-food joint a couple blocks away. But if you walk a little further, ask around a bit, of course there are exciting things to discover.
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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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Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.
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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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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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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.
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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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The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
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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 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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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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I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.
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