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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.

Alex Kapranos

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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
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Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
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I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the 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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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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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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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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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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The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
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I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
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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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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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I have always been fascinated by the concept of the villain and the hero being in one person.
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