Alex Turner Quotes

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Alex Turner

Profession : Musician

Birth : January 6, 1986

I am a romantic fool, no doubt about that.

Alex Turner

I'm in a difficult position in the sense that, preposterous as this might sound, I don't like being the centre of attention. I get up on stage every night and play songs, but I almost feel the songs are the centre of attention. I don't like opening my birthday presents in front of people, either.

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Someone asked me what the key to being a good frontman was, and I think having a sense of humor about it is pretty near the top of that list. It's a very strange place to be in, and I don't take that role too seriously.

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I think New York is a good place to write in general because it's a grid. It's organized. You know where you are on the map. That centers you, and your imagination is perhaps freer to roam.

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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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If anyone asks me about songwriting, I guess I'd say that you just gotta do it.

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'Hatful of Hollow' and 'The Smiths' were lent to me, and they made me want to create music that might make another person feel like they made me feel - to have an effect on someone.

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The idea that talent is directly proportional to your trophy cabinet is one I oppose.

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Rock n' roll seems like it's faded away sometimes, but it will never die.

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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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Every time you write a song, you're looking for some sort of perfection, and you never quite reach it. You're always looking for that extra missing piece.

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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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I'm like the Ben Affleck of crowd surfing.

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I get nervous about gigs sometimes, but not with records - I always get excited.

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I can be a woodsman if need be. I grew up very close to some forest, and I spent a lot of my formative years up and down trees, fooling around in the woods. I'm no stranger to that sort of landscape.

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Sometimes I don't want to be in the confines of what a band seems to provide.

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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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I just don't think I'm equipped to soundtrack the times. There might be someone out there who can do that, but I haven't cracked it.

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I still very much appreciate the storytelling of the best rappers.

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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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