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You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.

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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Songwriter
Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
Ridiculousness
Embrace
Begin
Sense
Great

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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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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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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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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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I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.
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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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People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.
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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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Why play a chord when you can play one note?
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Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.
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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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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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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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Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
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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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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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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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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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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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