Kevin Parker Quotes
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I like a messy hotel room. It's a little slice of home.
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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'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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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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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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For me, the value of music is the value you extract from it.
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Once I've got something that I feel is strong, if I get long enough to think about it, it'll turn into something. I'll start thinking about the drums - what the drums are doing, what the bass is doing. Then, if I can remember it by the time I get to a recording device, it'll turn into a song.
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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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What do you call that when you add '-ism' on the end of a word? What is that process? 'Wordism'? Something like that, yeah.
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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 actually think looking to the past for inspiration is pretty redundant.
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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'll write songs wherever I am.
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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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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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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 didn't even know that small bands played in Las Vegas. I just thought it was, like, Celine Dion and stuff.
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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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I used to download music illegally. Everyone has. No one is innocent. Everyone has done 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 song.
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I write songs every day, but only a few of them get finished.
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'Lonerism' is such an insular, detached album.
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My brother Steve, who was a few years older than me, had 'Bad' on tape, and I remember listening to 'Smooth Criminal' and just thinking it was the coolest thing ever. I must have been five or six at the time, and I remember walking around school by myself thinking I was Michael Jackson. I wasn't dancing, exactly - more like walking musically.
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For me, I'm just too bad at remembering the details of lengths of parts of songs, so if we had backing tracks, it would be a recipe for disaster.