Tame Impala Quotes
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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'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 was always putting songs on the Internet, but I was never into pushing them on anyone.
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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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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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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 way I do it is there's never recording 'sessions.' One finishes, the next one starts. It's just continuous.
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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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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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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 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 like a messy hotel room. It's a little slice of home.
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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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I'll write songs wherever I am.
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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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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 you can reach the same highs working in a band as you can on your own.
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I write songs every day, but only a few of them get finished.
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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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Grunge gave me a sense of identity, and I remember really associating with 'Silverchair,' who were these chilled-out Australian teenagers. The fact that they were teenagers was a big deal for me. It was like, 'Oh, man, you don't have to be a 30-year-old to do this.'
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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.