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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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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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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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It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.
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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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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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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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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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Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.
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Boho to me is a first-year student who's just discovered the tie-dye shop.
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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'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
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There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.
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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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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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Anyone can play an instrument if you show them how to move their limbs, lips or fingers the right way. It's irrelevant. What is relevant is personality, energy, creativity and disturbing sense of humour.
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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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Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.
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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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You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
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People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.
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