I wanted it to feel like I was tapping into a thing, even if it wasn’t.
ALAN PALOMOThe way you phrase it might change, but it will always continue to happen, and there’s something really charming and calming about that.
More Alan Palomo Quotes
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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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It’s difficult because it forces you to really get creative.
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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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I remember a time when I would hear a band and then want to hear everything that sounded like it;
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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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We really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around.
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And sometimes you have to let it go limp and detach yourself from any associations.
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There’s nothing better than having an experience now that’s the exact same thing.
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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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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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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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Because anybody can find their fan base through the Internet.
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There’s a very distinct difference between a really wonderful DIY label and a soft drink company, or a car company, or a clothing brand, and you will always understand that difference.
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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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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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