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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
Dance
Blood
Inspirational
Music
Make
People
Surge
Veins

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Why play a chord when you can play one note?
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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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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 have always been fascinated by the concept of the villain and the hero being in one person.
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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 fine to indulge yourself so long as you don't try and foist it on the rest of the world.
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I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
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I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
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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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There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.
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There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.
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I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.
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It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
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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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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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Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.
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Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!
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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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