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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
Sense
Fingers
Play
Personality
Limbs
Right
Creativity
Disturbing
Move
Irrelevant
Anyone
Humour
Show
Relevant
Moving
Instrument
Energy
Lips

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Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.
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For me upward social mobility is possible through talent and hard work and is a glowing endorsement of the benefits of living in a modern capitalist society. It's not so much evidence of a meritocracy, as evidence of healthy nepotism. Nepotism is at the core of a good group dynamic. A good group dynamic is at the core of rock'n'roll.
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Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.
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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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It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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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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Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.
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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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Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
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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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The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't 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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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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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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I have always been fascinated by the concept of the villain and the hero being in one person.
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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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