Kevin Parker Quotes

Kevin Parker

Profession : Musician

Birth : January 20, 1986

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

Some of my most important musical experiences were from a burnt CD with songs my friend downloaded for me at a terrible digital quality.

Kevin Parker

In the end, I'm lucky enough to travel the world and make albums and not have to worry about not having a job.

Kevin Parker

The way I do it is there's never recording 'sessions.' One finishes, the next one starts. It's just continuous.

Kevin Parker

I just record whenever I can, whenever I'm home, whenever I have access to something that can make music.

Kevin Parker

I'm always working on new music.

Kevin Parker

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

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.

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I write songs every day, but only a few of them get finished.

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I never know when a record is finished until it's almost finished.

Kevin Parker

The more I question myself about why I think pop is taboo, the more I realize it's not.

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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.

Kevin Parker

It's largely a misconception that Tame Impala is a band. We play as a band on stage, but it's really not how it is at all on the album. The album is just me.

Kevin Parker

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

To me, rock and roll is like an ethos or a state of mind.

Kevin Parker

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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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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I like a messy hotel room. It's a little slice of home.

Kevin Parker

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

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