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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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History
Every
Pivotal
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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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Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.
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There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.
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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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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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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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I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
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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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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'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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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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Music should be universal. My life perspective, my lifestyle - I'm not going to impose that on the people that listen to my music. That's kind of a perverse form of snobbery I like to reject.
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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
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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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There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.
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It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
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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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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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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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