There’s this really amazing quote from Jim Jarmusch about celebrating your theft that I think has become more and more prominent in music.
ALAN PALOMOI can’t pretend that I don’t subscribe to Internet music culture in that I discover new music and old music simultaneously.
More Alan Palomo Quotes
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I don’t mind that I’ve created an identity around what I do.
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There’s something really fun and spooky about that teenage feeling of narcissism or indestructibility.
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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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Things are changing at such a rate that you really can’t get too familiar with anything that you own in relation to what sort of functionality it has in your life.
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There’s nothing better than having an experience now that’s the exact same thing.
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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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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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You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.
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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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It makes you more choosy and also more receptive to absorb anything for 15 seconds.
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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 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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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 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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