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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
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Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.
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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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Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.
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Boho to me is a first-year student who's just discovered the tie-dye shop.
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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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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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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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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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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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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'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.
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It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
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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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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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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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I have always been fascinated by the concept of the villain and the hero being in one person.
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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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There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.
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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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The Beatles were huge for me, ... I used to jump around the room to the red album, the one with all the early hits on it. It made you feel euphoric. It was a sensation I couldn't get from anything else, whether it was playing football, swimming or even seeing 'Star Wars.'
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