Let alone 15 minutes – to decide what you think about it.
ALAN PALOMOI don’t mind that I’ve created an identity around what I do.
More Alan Palomo Quotes
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When you completely extract yourself from anything familiar.
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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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it opens opportunities up for talented people along with people like Rebecca Black.
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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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Because anybody can find their fan base through the Internet.
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You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.
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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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I would’ve done when I was 16, like texting a really awkward “I like you” message to someone.
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There’s something really fun and spooky about that teenage feeling of narcissism or indestructibility.
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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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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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And sometimes you have to let it go limp and detach yourself from any associations.
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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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It makes you more choosy and also more receptive to absorb anything for 15 seconds.
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It’s difficult because it forces you to really get creative.
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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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There’s nothing better than having an experience now that’s the exact same thing.
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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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“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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Like the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends.
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You should always choose your associations wisely because people create impressions around the music.
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Memory is just as much of an instrument as anything else in music.
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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 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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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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