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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.
Alex Kapranos
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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
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Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
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The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
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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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I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.
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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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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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Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.
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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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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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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 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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The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.
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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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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'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
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