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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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I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
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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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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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Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.
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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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The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
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There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.
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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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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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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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Boho to me is a first-year student who's just discovered the tie-dye shop.
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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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Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.
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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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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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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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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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People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.
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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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Why play a chord when you can play one note?
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