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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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Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.
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It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
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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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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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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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Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.
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The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't 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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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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Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.
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