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.
ALAN PALOMOYou 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.
More Alan Palomo Quotes
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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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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 subscribe to the idea that personality is like a muscle.
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I don’t mind that I’ve created an identity around what I do.
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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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We really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around.
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Like the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends.
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You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.
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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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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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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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Because anybody can find their fan base through the Internet.
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And sometimes you have to let it go limp and detach yourself from any associations.
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It makes you more choosy and also more receptive to absorb anything for 15 seconds.
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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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