Kevin Parker Quotes

I am lucky to live in Austin, so I can enjoy the live music.

Festivals are great because you get to just walk around the corner and see a new band that you've heard but not had the chance to check out.

There wasn't a lot of live music that you could hear where I came from, which was a small town in southeast Missouri.

I love watching live music. It's one of the reasons I love living in Austin, Texas, because there is so much live music.

Playing live is a lost art, and you don't see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the older bands do. It's a celebration, and a lot of people treat it like a commercial or a distraction.

Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.

The Austin music scene is the reason why so many of them moved here.

I wish the rock 'n' roll scene to be back in.

For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16, and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that.

We always go out looking for live music after our shows.

Any city that's worth a dang certainly has a musical heartbeat, a culture, and a scene that can stand on its own.

I don't know if I miss it per se, but I do miss the fact that there just doesn't seem to be any rock 'n' roll out there anyplace. Everything does seem kind of tame. It's even hard in Manhattan to go out and find a good band to go see.

I didn't really buy LPs or go to concerts.

There I met Gordon Jackson and Dave Meredith who were playing in local bands.

When we were 15, my brother and I were getting really into Nirvana, Green Day, and The Beastie Boys. We started going to shows and realized we really wanted to be on stage.

People discover you at festivals. They come to see Coldplay or whoever, and then wander over and catch your act. Festivals make a lot of sense to me.

What turns me on is to walk into a sold-out venue. The audiences are so much the same as they were in the '60s. It's just an amazing thing. I can't explain it, but I hope it never stops.

When I was growing up, there was no such thing as a touring ukulele player.

It's fun playing small venues.

There's so much music going on in New Orleans.

There is nothing else to do in Nashville except for write songs.

No, I'm sure that there's a lot of L.A. bands out there.

I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.

Florida is a crazy place, and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here.

Vegas, when we go on tour, is one of the hottest spots for not only people in the United States, but international fans.