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 something really fun and spooky about that teenage feeling of narcissism or indestructibility.
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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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I never willfully want to write the same record twice, which is probably why I jump from project to project.
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It’s cool but also a little creepy.
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When you completely extract yourself from anything familiar.
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I wanted it to feel like I was tapping into a thing, even if it wasn’t.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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 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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