Tame Impala 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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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'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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I don't think I've ever listened to 'Sgt. Pepper's' the whole way through.
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For me, the value of music is the value you extract from it.
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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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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 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 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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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'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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Making music is so spiritual. I'm not a spiritual person, but music is sacred to me.
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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 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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I actually think looking to the past for inspiration is pretty redundant.
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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 guess I'm not saying that I think music should be free, but I do think that if people can get it for free, there's nothing anyone can do to stop them. It's kind of a waste of energy to try and force them to pay for it if they don't have to.
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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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I've always argued that all Tame Impala melodies are pure pop. It's just that 'Lonerism,' for example, is a completely rumbling, fuzzed out psychedelic rock album. But for me, it was just pop music produced the way that I like to produce it.
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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.
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I had this weird fetish for making the guitar sound like it wasn't a guitar to try and trick people into actually thinking it was a keyboard. I don't know why that was such an obsession, why I didn't just get a keyboard. I guess it was because I had no money.
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I don't think you can reach the same highs working in a band as you can on your own.