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Boho to me is a first-year student who's just discovered the tie-dye shop.
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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
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Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
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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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Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
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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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The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.
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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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It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
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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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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 think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
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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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I find American football quite ridiculous generally. I don't understand it. It looks like a lot of guys dressed up as spacemen shouting at each other.
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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'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.
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The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
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Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.
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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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You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
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There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.
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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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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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