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Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.

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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'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
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Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!
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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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No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you.
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I have always been fascinated by the concept of the villain and the hero being in one person.
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It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
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The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
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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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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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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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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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There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast.
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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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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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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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