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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
Surge
Veins
Dance
Blood
Inspirational
Music
Make
People

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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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You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
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There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.
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The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
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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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It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
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Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.
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Why play a chord when you can play one note?
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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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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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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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I find American football quite ridiculous generally. I don't understand it. It looks like a lot of guys dressed up as spacemen shouting at each other.
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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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