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People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.

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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Songwriter
Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
Music
People
Fickle
Tastes
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Fashion

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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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The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.
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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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Why play a chord when you can play one note?
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Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.
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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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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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Cinema, which is influenced by every single part of life, is direct and reaches you immediately. And writing - the best writing is complex ideas communicated concisely. And music - if it's a good tune, make sure people can bloody hear it!
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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 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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Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!
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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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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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The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
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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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There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.
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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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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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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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I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.
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