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There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.

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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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Love
Loads
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Bands
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Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!
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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 think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
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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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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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There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.
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Why play a chord when you can play one note?
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Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.
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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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You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
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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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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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Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.
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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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Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.
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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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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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It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
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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'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.
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