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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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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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Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.
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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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Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.
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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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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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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.
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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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It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
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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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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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People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.
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Why play a chord when you can play one note?
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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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Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.
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You can't write for the cultural environment - if you do that, by the time it comes out, that cultural environment has passed. You have to be aiming for something that's original - that's the only way you can have any kind of impact.
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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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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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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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