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 PALOMO“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.
More Alan Palomo Quotes
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It’s cool but also a little creepy.
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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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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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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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I don’t mind that I’ve created an identity around what I do.
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You should always choose your associations wisely because people create impressions around the music.
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And sometimes you have to let it go limp and detach yourself from any associations.
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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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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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I remember a time when I would hear a band and then want to hear everything that sounded like it;
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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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it opens opportunities up for talented people along with people like Rebecca Black.
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Because anybody can find their fan base through the Internet.
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