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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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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Songwriter
Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
People
Surge
Veins
Dance
Blood
Inspirational
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Make

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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.
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Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.
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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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The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.
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Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!
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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 internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
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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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It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
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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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Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.
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