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It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.

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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Songwriter
Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
Song
Fall
Mind
Falls
Rare
Complete

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I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
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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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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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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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Why play a chord when you can play one note?
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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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There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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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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Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.
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I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.
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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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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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