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.
ALAN PALOMOThere’s this really amazing quote from Jim Jarmusch about celebrating your theft that I think has become more and more prominent in music.
More Alan Palomo Quotes
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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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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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You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.
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Like the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends.
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And sometimes you have to let it go limp and detach yourself from any associations.
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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 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 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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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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Because anybody can find their fan base through the Internet.
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it opens opportunities up for talented people along with people like Rebecca Black.
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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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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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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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