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 PALOMOMemory is just as much of an instrument as anything else in music.
More Alan Palomo Quotes
-
-
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.
ALAN PALOMO -
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.
ALAN PALOMO -
You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.
ALAN PALOMO -
I don’t mind that I’ve created an identity around what I do.
ALAN PALOMO -
I subscribe to the idea that personality is like a muscle.
ALAN PALOMO -
We really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around.
ALAN PALOMO -
You should always choose your associations wisely because people create impressions around the music.
ALAN PALOMO -
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.
ALAN PALOMO -
And we use it to read album reviews and watch kitten videos… not to put those two things in the same light!
ALAN PALOMO -
When you completely extract yourself from anything familiar.
ALAN PALOMO -
There’s something really fun and spooky about that teenage feeling of narcissism or indestructibility.
ALAN PALOMO -
But it’s not anything like what we envisioned it to be. It’s almost like there’s too much choice.
ALAN PALOMO -
The Internet really does create this dimension around the music that’s always in relation to what else is happening at the moment.
ALAN PALOMO -
it opens opportunities up for talented people along with people like Rebecca Black.
ALAN PALOMO -
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.
ALAN PALOMO -
The way you phrase it might change, but it will always continue to happen, and there’s something really charming and calming about that.
ALAN PALOMO -
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.
ALAN PALOMO -
Like the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends.
ALAN PALOMO -
It’s cool but also a little creepy.
ALAN PALOMO -
I can’t pretend that I don’t subscribe to Internet music culture in that I discover new music and old music simultaneously.
ALAN PALOMO -
I would’ve done when I was 16, like texting a really awkward “I like you” message to someone.
ALAN PALOMO -
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.
ALAN PALOMO -
Is my music indicative of a caffeine-surged green liquid? Probably not.
ALAN PALOMO -
Memory is just as much of an instrument as anything else in music.
ALAN PALOMO -
There’s this really amazing quote from Jim Jarmusch about celebrating your theft that I think has become more and more prominent in music.
ALAN PALOMO -
But I can’t ignore that there are things that inspire me, and I love celebrating those.
ALAN PALOMO