Top 30 Kemp Muhl Quotes

The idea of old world instruments mixed with sci-fi, futuristic lyrics, playing baroque guitar on a song about a robot boy and a banjo solo on a song about white noise – that’s our sense of humor.

It’s definitely a hard pill to swallow; the son of John Lennon and a model having a band together is a cliche. But I think that once people get past that I think there’s been a really warm reception to our music.

I grew up listening to a lot of Simon & Garfunkel and Peter, Paul and Mary. I know that sounds dorky, but I always responded strongly to that kind of lyric-driven folk music.

We love the juxtaposition of something saccharine with something morbid.

We have entered an age where religious ideologies and nuclear technology coexist. This alone is a terrifying concept, plus the fact that humanity is like Icarus, flirting with how close we can get to the sun of technology before our wax wings melt.

We’re so bored of plastic, prime-time predictability.

Because I’m a little ADD, I would like to incorporate even more facets to my career eventually, such as writing and directing films.

My father is a retired army colonel, and my family is into hunting.

I’ve definitely evolved into a monster.

Everyone has this idea of Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin: the woman being pretty and prancing around while the guy writes all the songs.

I think every man should have a pair of boots. They’re really sexy. Leather boots, cowboy boots, it depends. I really like the ones from the Seventies with the heels.

Very few empowered couples work together as peers.

I started writing songs with my best friend Eden Rice when were in our early teens. We performed together at local coffee shops in suburban Atlanta as Kemp and Eden, until fate intervened and we were separated.

My theory is that the only people who hate hipsters are hipsters.

We think the juxtaposition between banjo solos and songs about the future are really funny.

When Sean and I are old, we’re just going to compose weird abstract symphonies.

I was lonely as a young teenager and my only companion was an acoustic guitar. I would bring it with me on modeling trips.

I’m not a stickler for appropriateness.

Give me PVC, not P.C.

I come from a Catholic Republican military family in Georgia – the antithesis of Sean’s hippie-artist-peacenik background.

I think it’s now really feminine, jaunty-cool to carry a little clutch like you would a football.

If you’re going to have a rock band, you’ve got to do it while you’re young.

I started off liking uptight music and then discovered Pink Floyd and Hendrix.

I grew up with a lot of classical music around.

There’s room for many definitions of masculinity in the modern era.

Sean was a lot shyer lyrically in his solo career. I think because his father was such a great lyricist it was hard to tackle that.

We love creating these fantastical worlds, and that really comes from things like ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ and ‘I Am The Walrus.’

Sean and I are fighting so many cliches, it’s funny. But ultimately we just want to play people the songs we wrote while we were in our pajamas, in love.

When Sean came to meet my parents, the first thing my dad did when he picked him up at the airport was to take him right to a shooting range. My dad was like, ‘I want to see how he shoots.’

I want to be riding with the Four Horsemen!