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.
ALAN PALOMOThere’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.
More Alan Palomo Quotes
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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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But I can’t ignore that there are things that inspire me, and I love celebrating those.
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You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.
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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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“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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When you completely extract yourself from anything familiar.
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You should always choose your associations wisely because people create impressions around the music.
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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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Is my music indicative of a caffeine-surged green liquid? Probably not.
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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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it opens opportunities up for talented people along with people like Rebecca Black.
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Let alone 15 minutes – to decide what you think about it.
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It’s cool but also a little creepy.
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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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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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I wanted it to feel like I was tapping into a thing, even if it wasn’t.
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There’s nothing better than having an experience now that’s the exact same thing.
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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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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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I subscribe to the idea that personality is like a muscle.
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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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Like the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends.
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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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Because anybody can find their fan base through the Internet.
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