I can’t pretend that I don’t subscribe to Internet music culture in that I discover new music and old music simultaneously.
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
-
-
There’s no real template to follow these days for what a band should and shouldn’t be – bands are just becoming these weird little Internet avatars that you either follow or download or interact with in some removed way.
ALAN PALOMO -
“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.
ALAN PALOMO -
But it’s not anything like what we envisioned it to be. It’s almost like there’s too much choice.
ALAN PALOMO -
It’s difficult because it forces you to really get creative.
ALAN PALOMO -
The Internet really does create this dimension around the music that’s always in relation to what else is happening at the moment.
ALAN PALOMO -
But I can’t ignore that there are things that inspire me, and I love celebrating those.
ALAN PALOMO -
You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.
ALAN PALOMO -
Memory is just as much of an instrument as anything else in music.
ALAN PALOMO -
I have this eerie feeling that by the time I’m 33, reality will not exist in the same plane as it did before.
ALAN PALOMO -
There’s something really fun and spooky about that teenage feeling of narcissism or indestructibility.
ALAN PALOMO -
It makes you more choosy and also more receptive to absorb anything for 15 seconds.
ALAN PALOMO -
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 PALOMO -
We really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around.
ALAN PALOMO -
Because anybody can find their fan base through the Internet.
ALAN PALOMO -
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.
ALAN PALOMO