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Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!

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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Songwriter
Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
Beans
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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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I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.
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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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The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
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Why play a chord when you can play one note?
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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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If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.
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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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