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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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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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Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.
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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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If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.
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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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I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.
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Boho to me is a first-year student who's just discovered the tie-dye shop.
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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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Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!
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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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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 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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Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.
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Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
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The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
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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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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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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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Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.
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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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