Kevin Parker Quotes
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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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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 it was a band.
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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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The worst time for me is in the final few hours of taking a track that you've worked on for two years and bouncing it down to the final stereo mix. The overwhelming emotion for me is complete and utter fear that I've made a mistake. I'm scared. Afterward, I obsess endlessly about it.
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I write songs every day, but I don't necessarily get to record them.
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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 they were sampled. It was making electronic sampled music but using real instruments to do it.
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I like a messy hotel room. It's a little slice of home.
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I was always putting songs on the Internet, but I was never into pushing them on anyone.
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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 like, 'Good! That's good!' Maybe he didn't have the money for the album, but if he still listened to it, and it's an important part of his life, that's all I can ask for. I don't want his twenty bucks.
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The first time someone asked us for an autograph was the moment we realized we were doing something that most people spend their teenage years dreaming about, for sure.
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I don't think you can reach the same highs working in a band as you can on your own.
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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 listening to it.
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I actually think looking to the past for inspiration is pretty redundant.
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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 intrinsically... it's music. It should be better than that.
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The way I do it is there's never recording 'sessions.' One finishes, the next one starts. It's just continuous.
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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 song.
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I'll write songs wherever I am.
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I don't think I've ever listened to 'Sgt. Pepper's' the whole way through.
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I love the Beatles, but I don't listen to them at all regularly. Most of my friends are bigger Beatles fans than I am. I respect them, and I love them - 'Abbey Road' is probably one of my favorite albums, but I don't think I've ever listened to the 'White Album' the whole way through.
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'Lonerism' is such an insular, detached album.
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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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I used to download music illegally. Everyone has. No one is innocent. Everyone has done that.
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If I'm really jet-lagged and need to get to sleep, I just try and watch cartoons. As long as it's animated, I don't care - it has to have that distance from real life.
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What do you call that when you add '-ism' on the end of a word? What is that process? 'Wordism'? Something like that, yeah.