You should always choose your associations wisely because people create impressions around the music.
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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We really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around.
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You start reverting back to that state of mind where you’re having conversations with yourself, and that’s where the weirdest and most honest ideas come from.
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There’s nothing better than having an experience now that’s the exact same thing.
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I subscribe to the idea that personality is like a muscle.
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The Internet really does create this dimension around the music that’s always in relation to what else is happening at the moment.
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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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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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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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I can’t pretend that I don’t subscribe to Internet music culture in that I discover new music and old music simultaneously.
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I think the Internet has a way of coaching you into this state of mind where you think that every step you make needs to completely supersede the last.
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It makes you more choosy and also more receptive to absorb anything for 15 seconds.
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The way you phrase it might change, but it will always continue to happen, and there’s something really charming and calming about that.
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I have this eerie feeling that by the time I’m 33, reality will not exist in the same plane as it did before.
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it opens opportunities up for talented people along with people like Rebecca Black.
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Like the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends.
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I think it’s more about trying to just focus exclusively on writing music and making that a viable, sustainable lifestyle.
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So I wanted to create soundscapes that are evocative of places that only exist in your head – that’s where the fun, psychedelic stuff happens anyway.
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When you completely extract yourself from anything familiar.
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“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.
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But I can’t ignore that there are things that inspire me, and I love celebrating those.
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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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Memory is just as much of an instrument as anything else in music.
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I don’t mind that I’ve created an identity around what I do.
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Because anybody can find their fan base through the Internet.
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Things are changing at such a rate that you really can’t get too familiar with anything that you own in relation to what sort of functionality it has in your life.
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