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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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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Songwriter
Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
Always
Completely
Never
Attitude
Better
Right
Feel
Feels
Trying
Anticipation
Something
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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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