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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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Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
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I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.
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I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
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Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.
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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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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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If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.
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Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
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