Kevin Parker Quotes

Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound.

My tools are musicians, effects, things like that.

Technology means the kind of music you can make on your own if you've got an imagination is amazing. It's crazy that I can sit with a Mac and a keyboard and a mic and create a symphony.

We're always recording music, writing songs.

Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music.

I love putting the music together. It's like art.

Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise.

When you produce an album, you're dealing with it theatrically. It has to have a structure, and the inner response to that is that the ear loves it.

I spend a lot of time working in the studio as a producer, not just a singer.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

Making records should be fun.

I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

I find it hard to get excited by just a sound. I have to have a song there, then I'll find what used I can make of that sound within the song.

I wouldn't mind doing a soundtrack someday.

I've always been interested in what happens in the studio.

With my projects, I really like the extreme high-tech stuff, but I also like the other end, the acoustic things. So it seems like those meet on an iPad, where you make shapes but the sounds coming out of it are really acoustic.

I like to make great albums.

I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.

I don't mind sitting at home playing the guitar for a year as long as I'm making good films.

I started trying to do my own music at home, and I was like, 'You know what, I can play the guitar, sort of. And I can do these things, sort of. And I can make these crazy noises on my computer, sort of. But I need a ridiculously good drummer. I need someone to help me with string arrangements.'

I'm not an expert in instruments, beat programming, or electronics. For some people it's all about doing it themselves. But for me, it's all about find the people that can help make my vision come true.

Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.

I love to be in the studio. That's what I like to do best.

There was a recording studio in my school, and I knew this kid who had a key, so I'd write lyrics in school while I was in class, and then, in a 10-minute break, I recorded the song 'Hurt' in one go at the school studio.