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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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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Songwriter
Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
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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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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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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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There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.
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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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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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Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!
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The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
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I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
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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 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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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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Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.
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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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Although they might not admit it, I think girls are very aware of the impact that they're having. But they never feel it themselves, and it's impossible to explain. It's like trying to tell a blind person what yellow is.
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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
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