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"Elephant" is a song by Australian psychedelic rock band Tame Impala, released on 26 July 2012 as the lead single from their second album Lonerism (2012). The single features artwork from Australian artist Leif Podhajsky, who also created the artwork for Innerspeaker and the follow-up Lonerism. "Elephant" was covered by children's music group the Wiggles for Australian youth broadcaster Triple J's Like a Version segment on 5 March 2021, which won the station's Hottest 100 of 2021. Background Kevin Parker explains that: "Elephant" features a bluesier side of Tame Impala, heard more frequently on their self-titled extended play, as the song was written around that stage. Because it was written around that time, "Elephant" is "an anomaly on Lonerism. There are no other songs that have that bluesy riffing". Speaking about the track in a retrospective interview with Beats 1 in 2019, Parker spoke of his surprise at how successful the track became. "I always thought it was a bit shallow, a bit cringe. But now I appreciate Elephant, because the character I'm singing about, from the loner's perspective... it's how I always envisioned big, egotistical people who would march around. It's kind of how a loner might see a jock - like an elephant." In this same interview, Parker added that his favourite Lonerism lyric is from Elephant: "He pulled the mirrors off his Cadillac / 'Cause he doesn't like it looking like he looks back".

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“An elephant can trumpet and shake the earth but not the self-possession of the ants who hold it.”
— Alistair Cooke, Letter from America, 24 March 1968.
“In the High and Far-Off Times the Elephant, O Best Beloved, had no trunk. He had only a blackish, bulgy nose, as big as a boot, that he could wriggle about from side to side; but he couldn't pick up things with it. But there was one Elephant — a new Elephant — an Elephant's Child — who was full of 'satiable curiosity, and that means he asked ever so many questions.”
— Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories: The Elephant's Child
“Early one morning the sub-inspector at a police station the other end of the town rang me up on the phone and said that an elephant was ravaging the bazaar. Would I please come and do something about it?”
— George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant
“The people deck him like a docile king of elephants.”
— Rg-Veda 9:57:3, thus translated by Ralph Griffith: The Hymns of the Rg-Veda, p.488., quoted in Elst, Koenraad (1999). Update on the Aryan invasion debate New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.
“The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy: his legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure.”
— William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida (c. 1602), Act II, Scene 3, line 97, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 219.
“Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.”
— Indian proverb, The Little Red Book of Horse Wisdom, p. 71

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From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Notable quotes

“An elephant can trumpet and shake the earth but not the self-possession of the ants who hold it.”
— Alistair Cooke, Letter from America, 24 March 1968.
“In the High and Far-Off Times the Elephant, O Best Beloved, had no trunk. He had only a blackish, bulgy nose, as big as a boot, that he could wriggle about from side to side; but he couldn't pick up things with it. But there was one Elephant — a new Elephant — an Elephant's Child — who was full of 'satiable curiosity, and that means he asked ever so many questions.”
— Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories: The Elephant's Child
“Early one morning the sub-inspector at a police station the other end of the town rang me up on the phone and said that an elephant was ravaging the bazaar. Would I please come and do something about it?”
— George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant
“The people deck him like a docile king of elephants.”
— Rg-Veda 9:57:3, thus translated by Ralph Griffith: The Hymns of the Rg-Veda, p.488., quoted in Elst, Koenraad (1999). Update on the Aryan invasion debate New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.
“The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy: his legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure.”
— William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida (c. 1602), Act II, Scene 3, line 97, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 219.
“Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.”
— Indian proverb, The Little Red Book of Horse Wisdom, p. 71

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