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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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Every
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The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
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I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
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It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
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I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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For me upward social mobility is possible through talent and hard work and is a glowing endorsement of the benefits of living in a modern capitalist society. It's not so much evidence of a meritocracy, as evidence of healthy nepotism. Nepotism is at the core of a good group dynamic. A good group dynamic is at the core of rock'n'roll.
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I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.
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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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Why play a chord when you can play one note?
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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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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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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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You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
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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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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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