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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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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Guitarist
Musician
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Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
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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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The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
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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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I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.
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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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You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
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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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Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.
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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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There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.
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I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.
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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 food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.
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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 didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.
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It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
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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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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!
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