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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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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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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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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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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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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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People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.
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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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Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.
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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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There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.
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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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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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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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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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You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
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