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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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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Songwriter
Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
Move
Irrelevant
Anyone
Humour
Show
Relevant
Moving
Instrument
Energy
Lips
Sense
Fingers
Play
Personality
Limbs
Right
Creativity
Disturbing

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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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It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
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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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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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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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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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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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There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.
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Boho to me is a first-year student who's just discovered the tie-dye shop.
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If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.
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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.
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I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.
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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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Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.
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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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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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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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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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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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