I subscribe to the idea that personality is like a muscle.
ALAN PALOMO“It’s not where you got it from, it’s where you take it.” To me, that’s just an integral part of why I even bother making music.
More Alan Palomo Quotes
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When you completely extract yourself from anything familiar.
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Let alone 15 minutes – to decide what you think about it.
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It’s difficult because it forces you to really get creative.
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Is my music indicative of a caffeine-surged green liquid? Probably not.
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Memory is just as much of an instrument as anything else in music.
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But all you can do is ignore the annoying hum of the machine and focus on making art that makes you excited to be alive.
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But it’s not anything like what we envisioned it to be. It’s almost like there’s too much choice.
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Because anybody can find their fan base through the Internet.
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There’s something really fun and spooky about that teenage feeling of narcissism or indestructibility.
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I never willfully want to write the same record twice, which is probably why I jump from project to project.
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You should always choose your associations wisely because people create impressions around the music.
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There’s this really amazing quote from Jim Jarmusch about celebrating your theft that I think has become more and more prominent in music.
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You can’t always just put color filters in 80s aerobic videos or take stuff from public-access and look at it in this very ironic, self-conscious way. That only takes you so far.
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There’s no real template to follow these days for what a band should and shouldn’t be – bands are just becoming these weird little Internet avatars that you either follow or download or interact with in some removed way.
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And we use it to read album reviews and watch kitten videos… not to put those two things in the same light!
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