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 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.
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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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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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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 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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We really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around.
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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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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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It makes you more choosy and also more receptive to absorb anything for 15 seconds.
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And sometimes you have to let it go limp and detach yourself from any associations.
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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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Memory is just as much of an instrument as anything else in music.
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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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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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I never willfully want to write the same record twice, which is probably why I jump from project to project.
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