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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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I want to change and try new ideas - allowing your sonic identity to evolve in your music and not being afraid of that. You see musicians hit upon something that works, and then go, Let's keep doing that for 10 years. And that idea kind of terrifies me a little bit. It becomes like a day job then.
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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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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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I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
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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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It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.
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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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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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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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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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It's easy to be lazy when there's food lying around backstage or there's a fast-food joint a couple blocks away. But if you walk a little further, ask around a bit, of course there are exciting things to discover.
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I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.
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I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
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Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!
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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.
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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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Why play a chord when you can play one note?
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There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast.
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