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Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.
Alex Kapranos
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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
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Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
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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 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 think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
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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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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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It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.
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Boho to me is a first-year student who's just discovered the tie-dye shop.
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There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.
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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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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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Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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