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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
Musician
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Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
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I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.
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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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The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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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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It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.
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You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.
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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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Why play a chord when you can play one note?
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Boho to me is a first-year student who's just discovered the tie-dye shop.
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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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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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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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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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You can always have it better. If you try... [This is the right attitude:] Never to feel [completely] satisfied, always to want to do something better!
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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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There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.
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Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.
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