You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.
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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You should always choose your associations wisely because people create impressions around the music.
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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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“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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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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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 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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But I can’t ignore that there are things that inspire me, and I love celebrating those.
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Memory is just as much of an instrument as anything else in music.
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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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I never willfully want to write the same record twice, which is probably why I jump from project to project.
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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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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’s difficult because it forces you to really get creative.
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It’s cool but also a little creepy.
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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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Is my music indicative of a caffeine-surged green liquid? Probably not.
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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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I don’t mind that I’ve created an identity around what I do.
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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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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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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 nothing better than having an experience now that’s the exact same thing.
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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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It makes you more choosy and also more receptive to absorb anything for 15 seconds.
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Because anybody can find their fan base through the Internet.
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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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