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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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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Guitarist
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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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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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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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I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
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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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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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People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.
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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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It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.
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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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You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
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