Memory is just as much of an instrument as anything else in music.
ALAN PALOMOThe way you phrase it might change, but it will always continue to happen, and there’s something really charming and calming about that.
More Alan Palomo Quotes
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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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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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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 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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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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We really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around.
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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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I find it so funny that for the first time in history, people have access to this great equalizer in the Internet, which grants everyone the same knowledge base.
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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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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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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’s cool but also a little creepy.
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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 makes you more choosy and also more receptive to absorb anything for 15 seconds.
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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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