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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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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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Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.
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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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It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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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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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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Boho to me is a first-year student who's just discovered the tie-dye shop.
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Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!
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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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Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.
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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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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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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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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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People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.
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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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Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
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Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.
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