Nothing matches the sheer euphoria of discovering a new melody or a new batch of chords that just come out of nowhere. — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one. — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
I used to download music illegally. Everyone has. No one is innocent. Everyone has done that. — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I make music that surfers dig, but, like Brian Wilson in the Beach Boys, I'm the dude who never gets on the… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
The more confidence I get with making music, the more I feel like I can just rely on myself to fulfill me. — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
I feel like music will be free sooner or later, and I think I'm all for it. — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
I think after a long tour and after an album, your brain feels like it wants to relax, but at the same… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
I've always made music on my own, but I didn't think there was a platform for that, so I thought I had… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
Trying new things and experimenting is something I push myself to do. It's one thing to have love for all different kinds… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
I've always argued that all Tame Impala melodies are pure pop. It's just that 'Lonerism,' for example, is a completely rumbling, fuzzed… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
Some of my most important musical experiences were from a burnt CD with songs my friend downloaded for me at a terrible… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
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… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
There's so many people doing interesting things with the Internet and technology, there could be so many ways of making music and… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
When I became a 'rock musician,' I assumed pop music was easy to write and that interesting rock music, or alternative music,… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
It's funny how concert dreams are such a recurring thing among musicians. It's like how everyone has that dream of their teeth… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
That's how a lot of Tame Impala songs start out - as ideas for songs I could potentially give to someone else.… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
I've always loved listening to music on my own, but there's another side of me that is just fascinated by... like Goa… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
Making music is so spiritual. I'm not a spiritual person, but music is sacred to me. — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
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… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
In the end, for me, music is such an internal thing that to let the outside world influence would be against my… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
Surely there's a deeper pursuit to music than getting bros to pump their fists in the air. — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I just record whenever I can, whenever I'm home, whenever I have access to something that can make music. — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
I guess I'm not saying that I think music should be free, but I do think that if people can get it… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
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… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
For me, pop melodies are their own thing that have their own emotion, but they don't necessarily belong exclusively in a pop… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
With 'Innerspeaker' I was trying to do these hypnotic '60s grooves, but it was so hypnotic and repetitive that they sounded like… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
Listening to my dad playing guitar along to 'Sleepwalk' by the Shadows was probably the first time I discovered emotion in music. — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
There's all this talk of music needing a monetary value, this ownership of music, even that it needs a physical form. But… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
When I try and extract what it is about my music that I do or love or try to create, I'm never… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
One of the first albums I can remember hearing was a Supertramp best of, with mostly 'Breakfast in America' songs on it.… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
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… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
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… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
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… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
The first time someone asked us for an autograph was the moment we realized we were doing something that most people spend their teenage… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Obviously, artists need to make money and stuff like that, but if you do something good or if you make good art or make… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
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?… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
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… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
Making music is so spiritual. I'm not a spiritual person, but music is sacred to me. — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
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… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
The more confidence I get with making music, the more I feel like I can just rely on myself to fulfill me. — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
