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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
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Toast
Toasts
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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You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
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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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I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.
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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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There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.
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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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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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I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
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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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A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.
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Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.
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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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Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.
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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'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.
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Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
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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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The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.
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