Alex Turner
Alex Turner
Alexander David "Alex" Turneris an English musician. He is the lead vocalist, guitarist, and principal songwriter of the English rock band Arctic Monkeys. The only child of two teachers, Turner was raised in the Sheffield suburb of High Green. Turner has also recorded with his side-project The Last Shadow Puppets and as a solo artist for the Submarinemovie soundtrack...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth6 January 1986
CityHigh Green, England
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I think all this emphasis on sales is misguided. If you look at the Stone Roses or the Jam, you don't think about how many records they sold but what great music they made. That's what is?.
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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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It were amazing. That day it was like, 'Sky News wants to talk to you'.
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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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We want to do things our way, and people think it's arrogance, so it's inevitable some people will get tired of us.
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We were very nervous but it were right exciting. We weren't hooligans but we knew people that were.
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What came first the chicken or the dickhead?
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A lot of peopletell me I'm a bit dreamy, but I like the idea of that. Of being somewhere else.
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Love's not only blind but deaf.
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Rock'n'roll will never go away completely because it's so fundamentally attractive.
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You don't meet that many people that you can talk about Roots Manuva with, but that was my favorite in school, this record of his called 'Run Come Save Me.' When I first started writing lyrics, it came from that.
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We did the triple, but in all honesty, I suppose we're supposed to display some gratitude. We are grateful because, you know, voted for by the people and all that, we're very happy about that but who else was going to be the best British band at the moment, you know?
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We should not be afraid of change, we should return to the old ideas.
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We're getting a lot of (new) music together. It's all about our adventures at the moment. We don't see Sheffield much anymore ? it's a closed book. We're moving on and thinking about different things.