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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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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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People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.
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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 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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Boho to me is a first-year student who's just discovered the tie-dye shop.
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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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If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.
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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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It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
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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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I have always been fascinated by the concept of the villain and the hero being in one person.
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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 bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.
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