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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.

Alex Kapranos

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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Guitarist
Musician
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Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
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