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Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.

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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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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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Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!
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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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Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.
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I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
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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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For me upward social mobility is possible through talent and hard work and is a glowing endorsement of the benefits of living in a modern capitalist society. It's not so much evidence of a meritocracy, as evidence of healthy nepotism. Nepotism is at the core of a good group dynamic. A good group dynamic is at the core of rock'n'roll.
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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 success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.
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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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Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.
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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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You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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