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I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.

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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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Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.
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I have always been fascinated by the concept of the villain and the hero being in one person.
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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'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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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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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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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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It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
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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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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party.
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