Quotes by Kevin Parker - Page 2

If I'm really jet-lagged and need to get to sleep, I just try and watch cartoons. As long as it's animated, I don't care - it has to have that distance from real life.
Kevin Parker /
Animated
Distance
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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.
Kevin Parker /
First Time
Teenage
Teenage Years
Time Moment People
Time People Doing
Sure
Asked
Autograph
Dreaming
Spend
Moment
Realized
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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.
Kevin Parker /
Australia
Half
Album
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Obviously, artists need to make money and stuff like that, but if you do something good or if you make good art or make good stuff, the wealth will find you in some way.
Kevin Parker /
Good Art
Art Good Money
Something Good
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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.
Kevin Parker /
Buddhism
Excess
Morals
Shutting
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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.
Kevin Parker /
Family Life
No Memory
Opera
Soap
Assumed
Soap Opera
Split
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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.
Kevin Parker /
Opening
Radiohead
Electronic
Horizons
Phase
Specifically
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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.
Kevin Parker /
Monetary
Ownership
Needing
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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.
Kevin Parker /
Being Alone
Draining
Liberating
Naturally
Early Age
Incredibly
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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.
Kevin Parker /
Arrows
Comfortable
Identity
Musical
Personal Life
Life My Life Way
Almost Everything
Life My Life Identity
Make Up
Personal
Pointed
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I wanted to make something that, from the sound of it, could be down at the club. I just realised that I'd never heard Tame Impala played somewhere with a dance floor or where people were dancing.
Kevin Parker /
Dance
Dance Floor
Heard
Realised
Somewhere
Club
Floor
Tame
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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.
Kevin Parker /
Relax
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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.
Kevin Parker /
Romantic
Forgotten
Right Thing
Vices
Come
Life Myself Your
Lot
Thing
Do The Right Thing
Far
Forcing
My Life
Nowadays
Right
Shine
Spent
The Right Thing
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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.
Kevin Parker /
Incarnation
Produce
Life Where Live
Life Live More
Album
Basically
Covers
Tame
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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.
Kevin Parker /
Different Kinds
New Things
Love Music Myself
Coherent
Experimenting
Seamlessly
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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.
Kevin Parker /
Life Cool Love
Artists
Michael
First Things
Genres
Life Love Cool
In Fact
Jackson
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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?'
Kevin Parker /
Appreciated
Candy
Melody
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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.
Kevin Parker /
Easy
Hardest Thing
Interesting
Pop Music
Pop Song
Realised
Rock Music
Song
Writing
Alternative
Assumed
Became
Later
Rock
Musically
The Hardest Thing
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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.
Kevin Parker /
Groove
Hypnotic
Instruments
Repetitive
Electronic
Using
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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.
Kevin Parker /
Currents
Logical
Sensible
Dictate
Flourish
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I grew up in the grunge era. I've always resisted the idea of being part of a machine, wanting just to be an artist in my own right. But at some point, I just realized shutting things out took more energy than just letting it in.
Kevin Parker /
Letting
Resisted
Shutting
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I used to hate iPhones. Before I got an iPhone, I used to be like, 'What are you doing, sitting there on your phone. Join the real world, man.' I categorically disliked iPhones. When my friends got an iPhone, I was like, 'Oh, we lost him.'
Kevin Parker /
Friends
Hate
Iphone
Lost
Real
Real World
Sitting
Used
Before
Oh
Categorically
Man World Lost
Disliked
Phone
Him
Join
The Real World
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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.
Kevin Parker /
Music
Example
Pop Music
Produce
Psychedelic
Pure
Music Always Me
Always Me Way
Music Me Way
Album
Argued
Music Me Always
For Example
Melodies
Rock
Pop
Tame
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I guess I'm not saying that I think music should be free, but I do think that if people can get it for free, there's nothing anyone can do to stop them. It's kind of a waste of energy to try and force them to pay for it if they don't have to.
Kevin Parker /
Waste
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That's how a lot of Tame Impala songs start out - as ideas for songs I could potentially give to someone else. I think of them with a different persona in mind; it's just a subconscious way of not being bound by what you think you are as an artist.
Kevin Parker /
Persona
Subconscious
Bound
Potentially
Tame
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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.
Kevin Parker /
Most Amazing
Songwriters
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I used to think interacting with people in the audience, touching people in the crowd, was a total ego-based thing. I never realized how fulfilling it would be. It's more about being on the receiving end - it's people giving. That's a powerful realization.
Kevin Parker /
Fulfilling
Interacting
Realization
Receiving
Touching
Crowd
People End Never
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I had this weird fetish for making the guitar sound like it wasn't a guitar to try and trick people into actually thinking it was a keyboard. I don't know why that was such an obsession, why I didn't just get a keyboard. I guess it was because I had no money.
Kevin Parker /
Fetish
Obsession
Trick
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Grunge gave me a sense of identity, and I remember really associating with 'Silverchair,' who were these chilled-out Australian teenagers. The fact that they were teenagers was a big deal for me. It was like, 'Oh, man, you don't have to be a 30-year-old to do this.'
Kevin Parker /
Australian
Big Deal
Man Me Remember
Teenagers
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Even if people say you look cool and you did well, it's extremely cringey to watch yourself rocking out. It's like listening to your own voice on an answering machine times a hundred, because you're hearing your voice through a microphone outside of a PA at a hundred decibels.
Kevin Parker /
Answering
Microphone
Pa
Rocking
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I've always loved listening to music on my own, but there's another side of me that is just fascinated by... like Goa trance, for example - just a rave on a beach in India, you know? Where there's someone that's spinning the music, and it's just this free-flowing, continuous energy.
Kevin Parker /
Beach
Fascinated
Rave
Spinning
Trance
Music Always Me
Music Me Energy
Continuous
For Example
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The worst time for me is in the final few hours of taking a track that you've worked on for two years and bouncing it down to the final stereo mix. The overwhelming emotion for me is complete and utter fear that I've made a mistake. I'm scared. Afterward, I obsess endlessly about it.
Kevin Parker /
Emotion
Mistake
Overwhelming
Scared
Track
Worst
Time Fear Me
Afterwards
Bouncing
Complete
Utter
Endlessly
Mix
Obsess
Stereo
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I love the Beatles, but I don't listen to them at all regularly. Most of my friends are bigger Beatles fans than I am. I respect them, and I love them - 'Abbey Road' is probably one of my favorite albums, but I don't think I've ever listened to the 'White Album' the whole way through.
Kevin Parker /
Abbey
Bigger
Love Respect I Am
Album
Listened
Regularly
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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.
Kevin Parker /
Recurring
Teeth
Concert
Falling
Onstage
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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.
Kevin Parker /
Remember
Song
Strong
Thinking
Time Long Remember
Time Start Thinking
Time Thinking Long
By The Time
Drums
Device
Start
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My brain has a weird way of turning pressure into other things. I make a point to myself of shrugging it off - of going the other way and doing something for myself, wanting to do something better. For example, I know that I could have made 'Lonerism 2.0' in a day, but it wouldn't have satisfied me.
Kevin Parker /
Satisfied
Myself Brain Me
For Example
Weird Way
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One of the first albums I can remember hearing was a Supertramp best of, with mostly 'Breakfast in America' songs on it. It's kind of the same thing as the Flaming Lips, where there are these really melancholy lyrics and melodies, yet it's extremely uplifting. They're like a nonfuturistic version of the Flaming Lips.
Kevin Parker /
Uplifting
Albums
Breakfast
Hearing
Lips
Melancholy
Version
Flaming
Lyrics
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If someone says, 'Hey man, I love your album, it really got me through a breakup, but I downloaded it for free,' I'll be like, 'Good! That's good!' Maybe he didn't have the money for the album, but if he still listened to it, and it's an important part of his life, that's all I can ask for. I don't want his twenty bucks.
Kevin Parker /
Breakup
Bucks
Hey
Life Love Good
Album
Downloaded
Important Part
Listened
Says
Twenty
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At different times in life, I've felt like it's time to say goodbye from some form of myself that's been hanging around for a while - you just feel this urge to move on, like a herd of antelope. They're just standing there in a field eating grass. You feel like that as a person sometimes. Where's it's just time to move on.
Kevin Parker /
Different Times
Goodbye
Grass
Life Time Myself
Herd
Move On
Urge
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My brother Steve, who was a few years older than me, had 'Bad' on tape, and I remember listening to 'Smooth Criminal' and just thinking it was the coolest thing ever. I must have been five or six at the time, and I remember walking around school by myself thinking I was Michael Jackson. I wasn't dancing, exactly - more like walking musically.
Kevin Parker /
Brother
Dancing
Five
Listening
Remember
School
Six
Smooth
Tape
Thinking
Walking
Years
Time Myself Me
Had
Time Myself Thinking
Around
Bad
Been
Coolest
Coolest Thing
Criminal
Michael
Ever
Exactly
Few
Older
Must
Jackson
Musically
Steve
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