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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
Musician
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Songwriter
Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
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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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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
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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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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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The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.
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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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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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I have always been fascinated by the concept of the villain and the hero being in one person.
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There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.
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Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to 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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Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.
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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 I was a fan of someone as a teenager, then it's OK for me to feel completely in awe when I meet them.
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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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Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.
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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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