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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
Energy
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Fingers
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Limbs
Right
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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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Why play a chord when you can play one note?
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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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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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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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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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Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.
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It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
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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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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.
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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 only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
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I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
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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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Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
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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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Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.
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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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If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.
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