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 wanted it to feel like I was tapping into a thing, even if it wasn’t.
More Alan Palomo Quotes
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it opens opportunities up for talented people along with people like Rebecca Black.
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Let alone 15 minutes – to decide what you think about it.
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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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I remember a time when I would hear a band and then want to hear everything that sounded like it;
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I don’t mind that I’ve created an identity around what I do.
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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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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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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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When you completely extract yourself from anything familiar.
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It makes you more choosy and also more receptive to absorb anything for 15 seconds.
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Because anybody can find their fan base through the Internet.
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You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.
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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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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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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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