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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
Fickle
Tastes
Musical
Taste
Fashion
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People

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I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
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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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You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
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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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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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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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It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.
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You can't write for the cultural environment - if you do that, by the time it comes out, that cultural environment has passed. You have to be aiming for something that's original - that's the only way you can have any kind of impact.
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Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.
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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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I have always been fascinated by the concept of the villain and the hero being in one person.
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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'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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Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.
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There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.
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Maybe 'Can't Stop Feeling' and 'Turn It On' we'll just release as singles. It's a thing The Beatles used to do which I really loved, the idea of releasing something as a single completely on its own.
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I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.
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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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If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.
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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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