We really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around.
ALAN PALOMOBut it’s not anything like what we envisioned it to be. It’s almost like there’s too much choice.
More Alan Palomo Quotes
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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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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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I would’ve done when I was 16, like texting a really awkward “I like you” message to someone.
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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 remember a time when I would hear a band and then want to hear everything that sounded like it;
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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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When you completely extract yourself from anything familiar.
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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 nothing better than having an experience now that’s the exact same thing.
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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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“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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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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