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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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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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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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Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.
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I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.
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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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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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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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People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.
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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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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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It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
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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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