The Internet really does create this dimension around the music that’s always in relation to what else is happening at the moment.
ALAN PALOMOBut all you can do is ignore the annoying hum of the machine and focus on making art that makes you excited to be alive.
More Alan Palomo Quotes
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You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.
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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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It makes you more choosy and also more receptive to absorb anything for 15 seconds.
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There’s something really fun and spooky about that teenage feeling of narcissism or indestructibility.
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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 sometimes you have to let it go limp and detach yourself from any associations.
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I subscribe to the idea that personality is like a muscle.
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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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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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I never willfully want to write the same record twice, which is probably why I jump from project to project.
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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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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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We really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around.
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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 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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