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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
Sense
Great
Ridiculousness
Embrace
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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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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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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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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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There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.
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Why play a chord when you can play one note?
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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 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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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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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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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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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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Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.
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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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I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
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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 internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
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It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
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