Kevin Parker Quotes

Kevin Parker

Profession : Musician

Birth : January 20, 1986

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

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

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

I hate when bands make beige, middle-of-the-road music. I guess you can say 'Lonerism' is the war on beige music.

Kevin Parker

For me, working alone is being able to express, which is the artistic part.

Kevin Parker

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.

Kevin Parker

It's 2013, and you can make music anywhere. We've got laptops.

Kevin Parker

I'm actually in love with all of Scandinavia.

Kevin Parker

For 'Lonerism,' I really wanted make a non-psychedelic record. That's why the dominant instrument is the synthesiser, but maybe it didn't quite turn out that way.

Kevin Parker

I make music that surfers dig, but, like Brian Wilson in the Beach Boys, I'm the dude who never gets on the board.

Kevin Parker

I don't really hear the Beatles when I listen to my own music.

Kevin Parker

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

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

I've played festivals in Australia. If it's a dance music festival or mainstream festival, there's maybe, like, 10 percent who pay attention to the music.

Kevin Parker

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

I didn't even know that small bands played in Las Vegas. I just thought it was, like, Celine Dion and stuff.

Kevin Parker

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.

Kevin Parker

Tame Impala is kind of psych-pop.

Kevin Parker

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.

Kevin Parker

I feel like music will be free sooner or later, and I think I'm all for it.

Kevin Parker