"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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Source : "Alex Turner" by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. May 10, 2012.

Alex Turner

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Cracks Quotes

“It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format”
“Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.”
“Our value is the sum of our values.”
“If I look back, my mother was always out. I can remember the perfume and her scarlet chiffon dress and crystal beads, going to a party. She used to play her violin at restaurants later on in life and at old people's homes. She loved the races, which she used to take me to as a child: our carpets were bought with her winnings. Loved her chickens.”
“May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was eight, and refusing to watch the Queen's Christmas Day broadcast.”

Source : "The royals are so thick" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2011.
“Repetition makes reputation.”
“Suddenly I realize that everyone in the whole world is, at the end of a day, staring at a dusky horizon, owner of a day that no one else will ever know.”

Source : Polly Horvath (2008). “My One Hundred Adventures”, p.23, Schwartz & Wade
“I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.”

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