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Music Quotes by Kevin Parker

41 Music quotes by Kevin Parker

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A burnt CD with low‑quality songs sparked some of the most memorable musical moments for the speaker. They talk about dreaming of concerts, feeling music as a sacred, spiritual practice, and relying on self‑confidence to create alone. The quotes also note that modern laptops let anyone produce music anywhere, and that they enjoy both quiet listening and rave‑style trance.

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

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I'll write songs wherever I am.

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I'm always working on new music.

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For me, the value of music is the value you extract from it.

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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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Surely there's a deeper pursuit to music than getting bros to pump their fists in the air.

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Nothing matches the sheer euphoria of discovering a new melody or a new batch of chords that just come out of nowhere.

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I write songs every day, but I don't necessarily get to record them.

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

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

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

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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In the end, for me, music is such an internal thing that to let the outside world influence would be against my…

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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.…

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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.…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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The more confidence I get with making music, the more I feel like I can just rely on myself to fulfill me.

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Making music is so spiritual. I'm not a spiritual person, but music is sacred to me.

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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…

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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 used to download music illegally. Everyone has. No one is innocent. Everyone has done that.

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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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Making music is all about forgetting about everything around you.

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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?…

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…

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

Making music is so spiritual. I'm not a spiritual person, but music is sacred to me.

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…

The more confidence I get with making music, the more I feel like I can just rely on myself to fulfill me.

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

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

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…