Alex Turner Quotes

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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• A lot of artists go in the studio and say, 'OK, whaddaya want me to do? Is it gonna be a hit? I'll do it. Is it gonna get played on the radio? I'll do it.' So they start makin' these songs, and they fall in the same tempo, same category, same this, same that, and it'll just all sound the same.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Want
  • Me
  • Fall

• The United States is a low-trade - low-tariff country.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Country
  • United States

• The thing is that war is the opposite of negotiation. It's when you cannot negotiate, when you cannot talk, when you cannot reach agreements that then you have war.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • War
  • Talk
  • Negotiation

• The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• A lot of people are intimated by art, but it's something to be revered beyond criticism.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • People
  • Art
  • Criticism

• If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Country
  • Hope
  • Friend

• The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Intellectual

• I myself feel that I'm a well-rounded player and got a lot better defensively and without the puck as time has gone on.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Player

• I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • History
  • Learning
  • Best

• I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • World
  • Thought
  • Design

• You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.

  

  Sam J. Jones
  • Career
  • You
  • Reach

• One of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you'd never do in real life.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Life
  • Different
  • Real

• Being outside is a loose theme on 'Paracosm.' Acoustic-sounding instruments have that warmth to them that is really important to communicate. It was really important for me to tell a story – my favorite records have a narrative feel.

  

  Washed Out
  • Important
  • Me
  • Feel

• Being brave enough to just be unapologetic for who you are, that's a goddess.

  

  Banks
  • You
  • Enough
  • Brave

• I just think political correctness is crap.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Think
  • Political
  • Just

• Nobody is going to hand you a music career.

  

  Cam
  • Music
  • Career
  • You

• I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.

  

  Jack Quaid
  • Up
  • School
  • Comedy

• Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Look

• I still do a lot of shows with Brian Koonin, but we haven't had a full band lately.

  

  David Johansen
  • Band

• I'm an accidental entrepreneur.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Entrepreneur
  • Accidental

• I tend to not only read reviews, but also every little stupid thing online. It's a very bad idea, and there's a lot of angry people in the world. And it's weird to absorb all that weirdness.

  

  Charlie Kaufman
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• I really love a lot of Japanese music, like Ryuichi Sakamoto and this guy I got really into, Tatsuro Yamashita. When I was a little younger, I thought synthesizers meant Kraftwerk, cold, robotic, weird, Autobahn. But these guys are having a lot of fun on these things. Sometimes. Sometimes it's very somber. They could go either way.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Guy

• Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Planning

• 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.

  

  Alex Turner
  • Weird
  • Lyrics