Alexander David Turner Quotes
Songwriters always reminded me of that kid at school who would go around with his guitar, like, "Yeah, songwritin' man," looking wistful. That wasn't me - those kinds of people put me off.
Alexander David Turner
Arctic Monkeys
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In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called 'White Feathers.' It was produced in the studio theatre at the students' union in early 1999, when I was 21. It's 100 pages long: a very traditional play, with an interval, about deserters in the First World War.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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Mine is the horny hand of toil.
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In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.
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Songwriters always reminded me of that kid at school who would go around with his guitar, like, "Yeah, songwritin' man," looking wistful. That wasn't me - those kinds of people put me off.
Alexander David Turner
Arctic Monkeys
