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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
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Songwriter
Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
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Why play a chord when you can play one note?
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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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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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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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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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Although they might not admit it, I think girls are very aware of the impact that they're having. But they never feel it themselves, and it's impossible to explain. It's like trying to tell a blind person what yellow is.
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It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
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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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Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.
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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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Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.
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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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It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.
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The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
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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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Maybe 'Can't Stop Feeling' and 'Turn It On' we'll just release as singles. It's a thing The Beatles used to do which I really loved, the idea of releasing something as a single completely on its own.
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Boho to me is a first-year student who's just discovered the tie-dye shop.
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You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
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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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Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.
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