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Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.

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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Songwriter
Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
Wind
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Unemployable
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Vagrants
Kitchens
Traditionally
Kitchen
Lots
Characters

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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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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 make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.
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Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.
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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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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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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'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
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I really want it to have an impact on the world. I want to be in a town on the other side of the world, and somebody walks up and says, 'That music you made in Glasgow, I listened to it every day, and it moved me.'
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People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.
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Boho to me is a first-year student who's just discovered the tie-dye shop.
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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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It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.
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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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The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.
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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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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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Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!
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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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