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

• No matter how frustrated, disappointed and discouraged we may feel in the face of our failures, it's only temporary. And the faster you can stop wallowing in guilt, blame or resentment, the faster you can put it behind you.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • May
  • Stop
  • Face

• 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

• I remember when the family album came out, people would just knock on our door because they thought they knew us, and that, of course, is one of the great hazards.

  

  Sally Mann
  • People
  • Great
  • Family

• Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Music
  • Well
  • Mediums

• 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

• Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises.

  

  John Joseph Lydon

• It takes two to paint. One to paint, the other to stand by with an axe to kill him before he spoils it.

  

  William Merritt Chase
  • Two
  • Paint
  • Spoil

• Character is inured habit.

  

  Plutarch
  • Character
  • Habit

• Thanks to our cinctures and corsets we have succeeded in making an artificial being out of woman. She is an anomaly, and Nature herself, obedient to the laws of heredity, aids us in complicating and enervating her. We carefully keep her in a state of nervous weakness and muscular inferiority, and in guarding her from fatigue, we take away from her possibilities of development. Thus modeled on a bizarre ideal of slenderness to which, strangely enough, we continue to adhere, our women have nothing in common with us, and this, perhaps, may not be without grave moral and social disadvantages.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Moral
  • Enough
  • Common

• Technique-bodily control-must be mastered only because the body must not stand in the way of the soul's expression.

  

  Russell Meriwether Hughes
  • Soul
  • Control

• 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