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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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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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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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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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If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.
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Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.
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Boho to me is a first-year student who's just discovered the tie-dye shop.
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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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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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It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
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You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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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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People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.
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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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The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.
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There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.
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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 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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I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
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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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