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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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Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.
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Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
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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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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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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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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 think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
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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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Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.
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Why play a chord when you can play one note?
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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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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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You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
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The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
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People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.
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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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Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!
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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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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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