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There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.

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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Songwriter
Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
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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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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
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Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
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Boho to me is a first-year student who's just discovered the tie-dye shop.
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People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.
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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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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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Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.
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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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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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I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
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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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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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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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