Quotes by Alex Turner

Alex Turner

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.

Perfection

Song

Writing

I just wanted to do something that would freak people out. That’s the best thing to do.

Freak

People

Things To Do

I saw that something changed in terms of the way I approach writing. I don’t know. Before, everything was just sort of pieced together; and more and more nowadays I’ll have complete songs – chords, lyrics, a melody – and we’ll apply to those songs what we feel is required. That has happened much more on Humbug album than on any of the others.

Song

Together

Writing

I took the batteries out my mysticism /  And put them in my thinking cap

Batteries

Caps

Thinking

I’ve come to recognize songwriting as something that I do, and I want to be good at that. At that craft, if you like. I want to practice it.

Be Good

Songwriting

It was 2002, we all got guitars for Christmas and started playing in my garage that summer, rehearsed there and in a warehouse for a bit for about a year. We did our first gig in June 2003 and we played a few gigs in and around Sheffield for a bit then started doing gigs outside of Sheffield about this time last year, recording demos while all this was going on.

Guitar

June

Summer

Love’s not only blind but deaf.

Blind

Deaf

Maybe I’m too busy being yours to fall for somebody new.

Busy

Fall

Too Busy

Rock’n’roll will never go away completely because it’s so fundamentally attractive.

Going Away

Rock N Roll

Rocks

There have always been jokes all over our songs; I originally started writing lyrics to make my friends crack a smile, which is difficult.

Cracks

Song

Writing

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Batteries

Be Good

Blind

Busy

Caps

Chickens

Cracks

Deaf

Fall

Firsts

Freak

Going Away

Guitar

June

People

Perfection

Rock N Roll

Rocks

Song

Songwriting

Summer

Things To Do

Thinking

Together

Too Busy

Worry

Writing

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Quotes by Alex Turner

Alex Turner

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.

I just wanted to do something that would freak people out. That’s the best thing to do.

I took the batteries out my mysticism /  And put them in my thinking cap

I’ve come to recognize songwriting as something that I do, and I want to be good at that. At that craft, if you like. I want to practice it.

Love’s not only blind but deaf.

Maybe I’m too busy being yours to fall for somebody new.

Rock’n’roll will never go away completely because it’s so fundamentally attractive.

There have always been jokes all over our songs; I originally started writing lyrics to make my friends crack a smile, which is difficult.

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