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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.

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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Songwriter
Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
Create
Matter
Trying
Something
Massive
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I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.
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I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
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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 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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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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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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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 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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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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I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.
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People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.
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Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!
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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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Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.
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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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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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Why play a chord when you can play one note?
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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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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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