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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
Fashion
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People
Fickle
Tastes
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Taste

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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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You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
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The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.
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Why play a chord when you can play one note?
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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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It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.
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It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
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The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
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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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Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.
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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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Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!
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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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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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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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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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