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.
ALAN PALOMOWhen you completely extract yourself from anything familiar.
More Alan Palomo Quotes
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There’s something really fun and spooky about that teenage feeling of narcissism or indestructibility.
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You should always choose your associations wisely because people create impressions around the music.
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It’s cool but also a little creepy.
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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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I remember a time when I would hear a band and then want to hear everything that sounded like it;
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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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But I can’t ignore that there are things that inspire me, and I love celebrating those.
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It makes you more choosy and also more receptive to absorb anything for 15 seconds.
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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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Memory is just as much of an instrument as anything else in music.
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I would’ve done when I was 16, like texting a really awkward “I like you” message to someone.
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It’s difficult because it forces you to really get creative.
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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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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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