Alex Turner Quotes

Every day you can write a song but some days there is just some magic in the air and something special about the catch; other days you write all day on a song line or idea.

I keep this crazy notebook of song ideas.

I wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs.

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.

I'm not the sort of chap who can sit down and write music. When it comes, I'm happy.

Lately, I love creating ideas on my acoustic guitar. I sit in my living room for hours trying different chords.

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.

Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.

Music comes to me more readily than words.

I am so highly skilled that when I pick up a phrase and then pick up my guitar, a form comes out almost immediately - a song - and once I start, I have to finish it.

I used to just sit in the living room and make up songs on the keyboard.

I compose melodies in my head and then interpret them musically with my guitar and keep them recorded. The guitar helps me to build unique chord structures on simple melodies.

Songs seem to always spring from improvisation.

When I write songs, it happens very quickly, sometimes 10 to 15 minutes, and I draw inspiration from everything.

All I'm trying to do is simply play guitar and elicit this creativity from the instrument.

It's not that I'm trying to write another '7 Years' or a new version of 'Mama Said.' Songs just kind of come out of nowhere, and you need to catch them when they do.

I'm always making music. I'm constantly making little musical recordings on my phone or on a little voice recorder I carry with me so I can remember these little pieces of music that eventually becomes songs.

I don't write songs.

Everything I see and hear... I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I'm always looking for a song.

For me, something will come in my head and I'll either end up calling my cell phone to record it, or I'll just pick my guitar up and see what comes out. Sometimes it sucks, sometimes it doesn't. So there's really no set method behind it.

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found I was writing a song. It just happened organically.

I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.

I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.

I sit around for ages waiting for inspiration. Then when I get an idea, I want to go with it and get something as quickly as possible. It's like catching a fly in a bottle. I'll play with drums for a bit, then the piano for a bit, play the guitar.