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You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.

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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Songwriter
Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
Ridiculousness
Embrace
Begin
Sense
Great

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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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Boho to me is a first-year student who's just discovered the tie-dye shop.
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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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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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There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.
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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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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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The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.
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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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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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The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
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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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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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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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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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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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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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