There’s something really fun and spooky about that teenage feeling of narcissism or indestructibility.
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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I wanted it to feel like I was tapping into a thing, even if it wasn’t.
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Like the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends.
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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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It makes you more choosy and also more receptive to absorb anything for 15 seconds.
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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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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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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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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.
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Because anybody can find their fan base through the Internet.
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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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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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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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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 don’t mind that I’ve created an identity around what I do.
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