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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
Never
Attitude
Better
Right
Feel
Feels
Trying
Anticipation
Something
Satisfied
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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 think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.
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The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
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The Beatles were huge for me, ... I used to jump around the room to the red album, the one with all the early hits on it. It made you feel euphoric. It was a sensation I couldn't get from anything else, whether it was playing football, swimming or even seeing 'Star Wars.'
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Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
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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'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
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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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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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If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.
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