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Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.

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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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Surely
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It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
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Why play a chord when you can play one note?
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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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I have always been fascinated by the concept of the villain and the hero being in one person.
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Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
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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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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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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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I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.
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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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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 think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.
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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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