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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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Expectations
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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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You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
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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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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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I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
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People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.
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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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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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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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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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It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
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The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
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Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.
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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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Why play a chord when you can play one note?
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Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.
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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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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 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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