Alex Turner
Musician
1986-01-06
Alex Turner is an English musician and songwriter, best known as the frontman of Arctic Monkeys.
Quotes by Alex Turner
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I'm like the Ben Affleck of crowd surfing.
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I'm not even sure where home is. Probably Terminal 5. There is a strange sense of calm about arriving back at Heathrow.
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Guitar music or rock n' roll or whatever you want to call it sort of goes away with trends, but it'll never go away completely. It can't die because it's so fundamentally attractive.
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The idea that talent is directly proportional to your trophy cabinet is one I oppose.
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Sometimes, writing songs is like waiting in for deliveries. They give you a window, and your washing machine is going to show up, whether the window is the album or something you're thinking, like, 'This thing is going to come to me.'
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I know my lyrics might be weird to some, but they're not like that to me because I know where they come from - I know the secret.
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It's a very unnatural environment to be in, up on a stage. So you put up defenses to hide. Like looking at the ground with your hair in your eyes, or being tightly wound and quite aggressive and uncooperative, as I used to do.
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