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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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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Songwriter
Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
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Matter
Trying
Something
Massive
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Boho to me is a first-year student who's just discovered the tie-dye shop.
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Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.
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There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.
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A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.
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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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There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.
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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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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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You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
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People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.
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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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I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
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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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Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.
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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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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 have always been fascinated by the concept of the villain and the hero being in one person.
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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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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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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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