Is my music indicative of a caffeine-surged green liquid? Probably not.
ALAN PALOMOThere’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.
More Alan Palomo Quotes
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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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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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“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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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 never willfully want to write the same record twice, which is probably why I jump from project to project.
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It’s difficult because it forces you to really get creative.
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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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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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I don’t mind that I’ve created an identity around what I do.
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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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Memory is just as much of an instrument as anything else in music.
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It makes you more choosy and also more receptive to absorb anything for 15 seconds.
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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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Let alone 15 minutes – to decide what you think about it.
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