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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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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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I really want it to have an impact on the world. I want to be in a town on the other side of the world, and somebody walks up and says, 'That music you made in Glasgow, I listened to it every day, and it moved me.'
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Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.
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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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It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.
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I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
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There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.
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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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Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.
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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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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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You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
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I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.
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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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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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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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The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.
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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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Why play a chord when you can play one note?
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I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.
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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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