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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
Guitarist
Musician
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Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
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The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
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You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
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I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.
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I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.
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Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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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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Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.
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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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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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Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.
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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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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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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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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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There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.
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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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