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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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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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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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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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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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I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.
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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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I have always been fascinated by the concept of the villain and the hero being in one person.
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Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.
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Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.
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I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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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 are loads of bands I'd love to produce.
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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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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'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
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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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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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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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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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