I have this eerie feeling that by the time I’m 33, reality will not exist in the same plane as it did before.
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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There’s something really fun and spooky about that teenage feeling of narcissism or indestructibility.
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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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When you completely extract yourself from anything familiar.
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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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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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“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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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 difficult because it forces you to really get creative.
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Is my music indicative of a caffeine-surged green liquid? Probably not.
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Like the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends.
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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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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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It makes you more choosy and also more receptive to absorb anything for 15 seconds.
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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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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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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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It’s cool but also a little creepy.
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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 remember a time when I would hear a band and then want to hear everything that sounded like it;
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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 wanted it to feel like I was tapping into a thing, even if it wasn’t.
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I subscribe to the idea that personality is like a muscle.
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it opens opportunities up for talented people along with people like Rebecca Black.
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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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Memory is just as much of an instrument as anything else in music.
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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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