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 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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It makes you more choosy and also more receptive to absorb anything for 15 seconds.
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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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You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.
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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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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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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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But I can’t ignore that there are things that inspire me, and I love celebrating those.
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There’s something really fun and spooky about that teenage feeling of narcissism or indestructibility.
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I find it so funny that for the first time in history, people have access to this great equalizer in the Internet, which grants everyone the same knowledge base.
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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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There’s nothing better than having an experience now that’s the exact same thing.
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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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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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“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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