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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Songwriter
Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
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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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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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People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.
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I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
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You can always have it better. If you try... [This is the right attitude:] Never to feel [completely] satisfied, always to want to do something better!
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There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.
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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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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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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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It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.
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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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It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
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I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
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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 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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Boho to me is a first-year student who's just discovered the tie-dye shop.
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Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
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Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.
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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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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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