Kevin Parker Quotes

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After my grunge phase, I started opening my horizons an

After my grunge phase, I started opening my horizons and listening to more electronic stuff. I got into Radiohead, specifically ‘Amnesiac’ – my brother gave me that album.
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I’ve always liked pop music. I love what it does to my brain, and I’ve shut it out for a long time.
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I never know when a record is finished until it’s almost finished.
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There’s all this talk of music needing a monetary value, this ownership of music, even that it needs a physical form. But intrinsically… it’s music. It should be better than that.
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Bands can become absolutely huge and actually be pretty terrible musicians, and bands can be the most amazing songwriters and musicians in the world and never play for more than 10 people. With that in mind, getting successful doesn’t mean anything.
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In the end, I’m lucky enough to travel the world and make albums and not have to worry about not having a job.
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Tame Impala is kind of psych-pop.
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I’ve always been of the idea that is doesn’t really matter where you are geographically – with ‘Lonerism,’ we made half the album in Australia, half the album in Paris.
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When I became a ‘rock musician,’ I assumed pop music was easy to write and that interesting rock music, or alternative music, was hard. It was only later I realised that writing a pop song is the hardest thing musically.
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I’ll write songs wherever I am.
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Trying new things and experimenting is something I push myself to do. It’s one thing to have love for all different kinds of music; it’s another thing to bring them together seamlessly and make them coherent.
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For me, I’m just too bad at remembering the details of lengths of parts of songs, so if we had backing tracks, it would be a recipe for disaster.
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Sometimes you really rely on the audience to have a good time playing live, and sometimes you could have zero people or a thousand, and you’d feel exactly the same.
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I’ve always argued that all Tame Impala melodies are pure pop. It’s just that ‘Lonerism,’ for example, is a completely rumbling, fuzzed out psychedelic rock album. But for me, it was just pop music produced the way that I like to produce it.
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When I try and extract what it is about my music that I do or love or try to create, I’m never aware of it at the time. I just make something.
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I just record whenever I can, whenever I’m home, whenever I have access to something that can make music.
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It’s kind of always been a secret fantasy of mine, the idea of writing a song and then not having to be the face of it.
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The way I do it is there’s never recording ‘sessions.’ One finishes, the next one starts. It’s just continuous.
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In high school, I was an absolute derelict.
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It’s funny how concert dreams are such a recurring thing among musicians. It’s like how everyone has that dream of their teeth falling out? Except musicians have this dream of just standing onstage and there being all these people out there, and for some reason, the song isn’t starting.
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I feel like music will be free sooner or later, and I think I’m all for it.
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My personal life, my musical life, my life as an artist – almost everything has pointed all these little arrows that make up which way I go as a person and what I feel comfortable as my identity.
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One of my mottos for ‘Currents‘ was ‘Give the song what it deserves.’ How would this song flourish? If the song could tell me what it wants, what can I give it? I tried not to dictate it with any sensible or logical decisions.
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I don’t think I’ve ever listened to ‘Sgt. Pepper‘s’ the whole way through.
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I write songs every day, but I don’t necessarily get to record them.
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I hate when bands make beige, middle-of-the-road music. I guess you can say ‘Lonerism’ is the war on beige music.
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I was always putting songs on the Internet, but I was never into pushing them on anyone.
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I make music that surfers dig, but, like Brian Wilson in the Beach Boys, I’m the dude who never gets on the board.
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I’ve spent a lot of my life forcing myself to do the right thing, and nowadays, I’ve just forgotten about all that. It’s far more romantic just to let all your vices and fetishes come out and shine.
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For me, pop melodies are their own thing that have their own emotion, but they don’t necessarily belong exclusively in a pop song.
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There’s so many people doing interesting things with the Internet and technology, there could be so many ways of making music and listening to it.
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Surely there’s a deeper pursuit to music than getting bros to pump their fists in the air.
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I’m actually in love with all of Scandinavia.
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For me, it’s always been draining to be around people for too long because I’m naturally a pretty expressionless person. From an early age, I found being alone incredibly liberating.
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Once I’ve got something that I feel is strong, if I get long enough to think about it, it’ll turn into something. I’ll start thinking about the drums – what the drums are doing, what the bass is doing. Then, if I can remember it by the time I get to a recording device, it’ll turn into a song.
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Listening to my dad playing guitar along to ‘Sleepwalk’ by the Shadows was probably the first time I discovered emotion in music.
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‘Lonerism’ is such an insular, detached album.
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With ‘Innerspeaker’ I was trying to do these hypnotic ’60s grooves, but it was so hypnotic and repetitive that they sounded like they were sampled. It was making electronic sampled music but using real instruments to do it.
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Some of my most important musical experiences were from a burnt CD with songs my friend downloaded for me at a terrible digital quality.
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If I’m recording a song, and it’s kind of fuzzed out, but I’ve got this super candy melody, I feel nothing but freedom that I can just sing over the top, and it will be appreciated. It won‘t be like, ‘What is he doing?’
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I’ve always had these morals I’ve sort of put on myself: that excess is bad. I used to be into Buddhism and stuff. I was vegetarian. I was all about shutting things out.
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I don’t like the idea that I’m a one-trick pony, even if I am! No matter what else I do, I have to make sure that ‘Elephant‘ isn’t Tame Impala’s biggest song anywhere.
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The first time someone asked us for an autograph was the moment we realized we were doing something that most people spend their teenage years dreaming about, for sure.
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I don’t think you can reach the same highs working in a band as you can on your own.
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The inspiration to write a song comes to me when something has happened to me more than once. If it’s happened to me more than once, it’s probably happened to other people.
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To me, rock and roll is like an ethos or a state of mind.
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Making music is all about forgetting about everything around you.
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My mum was quite poor, and my dad was rich. She didn’t dig that, so she left him.
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I’ve always made music on my own, but I didn’t think there was a platform for that, so I thought I had to pretend it was a band.
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Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one.
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I wouldn’t say making psychedelic music is my focus. That’s not the modus operandi for Tame Impala. It’s about making music that moves people.
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Tame Impala has two lives. One is the album, which is like a producer, and the other life is like a band: more of a live incarnation where we’re basically a covers band for the albums that I produce.
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For me, the value of music is the value you extract from it.
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I think after a long tour and after an album, your brain feels like it wants to relax, but at the same time, making music for me is something that comes kind of naturally. Just like a brain process.
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Michael Jackson‘s one of my favorite artists of my whole life. In fact, I think he is my favorite. It’s one of the first things I fell in love with before I learned about genres and before I knew what was cool to like.
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I always manage to keep myself busy.
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I have almost no memory of my parents ever speaking to each other. They split up on bad terms. I assumed that’s what family life was like. Just essentially a soap opera.
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I don’t really hear the Beatles when I listen to my own music.
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For me, working alone is being able to express, which is the artistic part.
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I like a messy hotel room. It’s a little slice of home.
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