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It's fine to indulge yourself so long as you don't try and foist it on the rest of the world.

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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Songwriter
Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
World
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Indulge
Fine
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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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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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I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.
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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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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 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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You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
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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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It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
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Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.
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There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.
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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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People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.
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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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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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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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Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.
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