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No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you.
Alex Kapranos
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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
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Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Why play a chord when you can play one note?
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People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.
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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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The Beatles were huge for me, ... I used to jump around the room to the red album, the one with all the early hits on it. It made you feel euphoric. It was a sensation I couldn't get from anything else, whether it was playing football, swimming or even seeing 'Star Wars.'
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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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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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The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
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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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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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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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There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast.
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I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.
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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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