The Internet really does create this dimension around the music that’s always in relation to what else is happening at the moment.
ALAN PALOMOIs my music indicative of a caffeine-surged green liquid? Probably not.
More Alan Palomo Quotes
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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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And sometimes you have to let it go limp and detach yourself from any associations.
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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 would’ve done when I was 16, like texting a really awkward “I like you” message to someone.
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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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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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You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.
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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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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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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 subscribe to the idea that personality is like a muscle.
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Memory is just as much of an instrument as anything else in music.
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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 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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But I can’t ignore that there are things that inspire me, and I love celebrating those.
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There’s something really fun and spooky about that teenage feeling of narcissism or indestructibility.
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I don’t mind that I’ve created an identity around what I do.
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it opens opportunities up for talented people along with people like Rebecca Black.
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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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Like the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends.
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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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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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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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Because anybody can find their fan base through the Internet.
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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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