I can’t pretend that I don’t subscribe to Internet music culture in that I discover new music and old music simultaneously.
ALAN PALOMOIs my music indicative of a caffeine-surged green liquid? Probably not.
More Alan Palomo Quotes
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And sometimes you have to let it go limp and detach yourself from any associations.
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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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“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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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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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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There’s nothing better than having an experience now that’s the exact same thing.
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Like the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends.
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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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And we use it to read album reviews and watch kitten videos… not to put those two things in the same light!
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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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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 it’s not anything like what we envisioned it to be. It’s almost like there’s too much choice.
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It makes you more choosy and also more receptive to absorb anything for 15 seconds.
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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 really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.
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