Kevin Parker (Kevin Richard Parker) Quotes

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

Kevin Parker Tame Impala

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• I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.

  

  Valerie June
  • Judge
  • Songs
  • Boss

• I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.

  

  Candice Olson
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Compromise

• Their effort to place the women upon the same industrial level with themselves in order that all may pull together in the effort to maintain reasonable conditions of life.

  

  Florence Kelley
  • Life
  • Women
  • May

• In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Good
  • Power
  • Culture

• This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.

  

  Ed Helms
  • May
  • Job
  • Nature

• Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • Life
  • Better
  • Seed

• When something's good, I'm not an over-celebrator.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Good
  • Something

• I try to write in a way that makes people feel things.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Write
  • Try

• There's something grounded about 'Ugly Americans,' so I think it's good that I'm playing a version of myself in these elevated cartoon circumstances.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Ugly

• The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • War
  • Alive
  • Journalist

• Every show finds its groove, I would say. The first season is the season to figure out the dynamics, the workflow.

  

  Falk Hentschel
  • First
  • Say
  • Season

• The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • World
  • Thought
  • Anger

• We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Moral
  • Legal

• The key measurement will not be how many people are watching the Univision network. But, believe me, I still think we are going to grow and are shooting for No. 1, and that spot is certainly on our radar. But engagement will be the focus and the main measure.

  

  Randy Falco
  • People
  • Believe
  • Focus

• I am an artist, I trade in uncertainty and superstition and cant. I invent dark visions of impossible situations that can never be resolved.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Dark

• The young and the old of widely different races, both with man and animals, express the same state of mind by the same movements.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Different
  • Mind

• There's not a single thing on offer in this all-too-temporary world for which you should ever sell your soul.

  

  Alan Keyes
  • World
  • Soul
  • Single

• My friends, who are both women, tell me their stories, which cannot be believed and which are true. They are horror stories and they have not happened to me, they have not yet happened to me, they have happened to me but we are detached, we watch our unbelief with horror.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Women
  • Friends
  • True

• Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Man
  • Fear
  • Leaders

• When I get to the movie set, I don't need to have a sort of iron fist that a movie is about me and my ideas. A lot of filmmakers don't have that benefit, so when they have their moment to let all that creativity out of them, it's all about them. It's their movie; it's their thing.

  

  Andrew Levitas
  • Movie
  • Creativity
  • Moment

• There is an instinctive understanding that the cultural, social and political development of a nation is a dynamic process which has to be given purpose and direction by drawing on tradition as well as by experiment, innovation and a willingness to evaluate both old and new ideas objectively.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Political
  • Purpose
  • Understanding

• Many business owners dream of having their product or service endorsed by a global celebrity. But instead of trying to get a superstar to support your business, try seeking out a local celebrity instead.

  

  Lewis Howes
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Dream

• The weirdest thing I've been fascinated with nowadays is the new contemporary country music, which to me sounds like very strange '70s pop, and sometimes like rock music. But some of the themes in there - maybe it's because I know how the songs were written, but it really does sound like it was written by two or three people, with the idea to appeal to the most general audience.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Country
  • Song
  • Audience

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

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala