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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
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Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
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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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Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
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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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It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.
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Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!
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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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Why play a chord when you can play one note?
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You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
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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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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 a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.
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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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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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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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There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.
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Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.
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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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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 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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