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 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 think it’s more about trying to just focus exclusively on writing music and making that a viable, sustainable lifestyle.
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Memory is just as much of an instrument as anything else in music.
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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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You should always choose your associations wisely because people create impressions around the music.
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Let alone 15 minutes – to decide what you think about it.
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You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.
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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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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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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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Like the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends.
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I subscribe to the idea that personality is like a muscle.
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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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I wanted it to feel like I was tapping into a thing, even if it wasn’t.
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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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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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But it’s not anything like what we envisioned it to be. It’s almost like there’s too much choice.
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I don’t mind that I’ve created an identity around what I do.
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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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Is my music indicative of a caffeine-surged green liquid? Probably not.
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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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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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It’s cool but also a little creepy.
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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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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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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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