Tame Impala Quotes
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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 have almost no memory of my parents ever speaking to each other. They split up on bad terms. I assumed that's what family life was like. Just essentially a soap opera.
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I actually think looking to the past for inspiration is pretty redundant.
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I'll write songs wherever I am.
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If I'm recording a song, and it's kind of fuzzed out, but I've got this super candy melody, I feel nothing but freedom that I can just sing over the top, and it will be appreciated. It won't be like, 'What is he doing?'
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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 don't think I've ever listened to 'Sgt. Pepper's' the whole way through.
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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'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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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'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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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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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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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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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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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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I write songs every day, but only a few of them get finished.
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For me, the value of music is the value you extract from it.
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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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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 was always putting songs on the Internet, but I was never into pushing them on anyone.