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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
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Disturbing
Move
Irrelevant
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Energy
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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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I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
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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 think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
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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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The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
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Why play a chord when you can play one note?
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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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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
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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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Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.
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