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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
People
Fickle
Tastes
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Music

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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 doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.
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There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.
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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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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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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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I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.
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Boho to me is a first-year student who's just discovered the tie-dye shop.
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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'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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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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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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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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Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.
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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 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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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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