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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.

Alex Kapranos

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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Guitarist
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Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
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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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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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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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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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There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.
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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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I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
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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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If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.
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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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I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.
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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 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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Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
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I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
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The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
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Although they might not admit it, I think girls are very aware of the impact that they're having. But they never feel it themselves, and it's impossible to explain. It's like trying to tell a blind person what yellow is.
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