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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've always loved listening to music on my own, but there's another side of me that is just fascinated by... like Goa trance, for example - just a rave on a beach in India, you know? Where there's someone that's spinning the music, and it's just this free-flowing, continuous energy.

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• ‟ I make music that surfers dig, but, like Brian Wilson in the Beach Boys, I'm the dude who never gets on the board.

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• ‟ Surely there's a deeper pursuit to music than getting bros to pump their fists in the air.

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• ‟ Making music is all about forgetting about everything around you.

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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 feel like music will be free sooner or later, and I think I'm all for it.

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• ‟ I think after a long tour and after an album, your brain feels like it wants to relax, but at the same time, making music for me is something that comes kind of naturally. Just like a brain process.

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• ‟ I've played festivals in Australia. If it's a dance music festival or mainstream festival, there's maybe, like, 10 percent who pay attention to the music.

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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 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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• ‟ I used to download music illegally. Everyone has. No one is innocent. Everyone has done that.

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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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• ‟ In the end, for me, music is such an internal thing that to let the outside world influence would be against my modus operandi.

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• ‟ When I became a 'rock musician,' I assumed pop music was easy to write and that interesting rock music, or alternative music, was hard. It was only later I realised that writing a pop song is the hardest thing musically.

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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 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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• ‟ It's 2013, and you can make music anywhere. We've got laptops.

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• ‟ I don't really hear the Beatles when I listen to my own music.

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