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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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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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I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.
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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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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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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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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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I have always been fascinated by the concept of the villain and the hero being in one person.
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Boho to me is a first-year student who's just discovered the tie-dye shop.
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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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I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
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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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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 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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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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You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
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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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I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
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There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.
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