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You can't write for the cultural environment - if you do that, by the time it comes out, that cultural environment has passed. You have to be aiming for something that's original - that's the only way you can have any kind of impact.

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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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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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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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The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
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I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.
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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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If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.
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It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
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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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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
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Boho to me is a first-year student who's just discovered the tie-dye shop.
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I have always been fascinated by the concept of the villain and the hero being in one person.
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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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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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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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There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.
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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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Anyone can play an instrument if you show them how to move their limbs, lips or fingers the right way. It's irrelevant. What is relevant is personality, energy, creativity and disturbing sense of humour.
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