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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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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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Why play a chord when you can play one note?
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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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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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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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Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.
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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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There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.
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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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Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!
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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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I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
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I find American football quite ridiculous generally. I don't understand it. It looks like a lot of guys dressed up as spacemen shouting at each other.
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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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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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I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.
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Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party.
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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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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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Boho to me is a first-year student who's just discovered the tie-dye shop.
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