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.
ALAN PALOMOI think it’s more about trying to just focus exclusively on writing music and making that a viable, sustainable lifestyle.
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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There’s something really fun and spooky about that teenage feeling of narcissism or indestructibility.
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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 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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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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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 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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You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.
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We really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around.
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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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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 remember a time when I would hear a band and then want to hear everything that sounded like it;
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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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Memory is just as much of an instrument as anything else in music.
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