You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.
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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I remember a time when I would hear a band and then want to hear everything that sounded like it;
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Like the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends.
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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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Because anybody can find their fan base through the Internet.
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Let alone 15 minutes – to decide what you think about it.
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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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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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I don’t mind that I’ve created an identity around what I do.
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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 opens opportunities up for talented people along with people like Rebecca Black.
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It’s difficult because it forces you to really get creative.
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There’s nothing better than having an experience now that’s the exact same thing.
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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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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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There’s something really fun and spooky about that teenage feeling of narcissism or indestructibility.
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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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I would’ve done when I was 16, like texting a really awkward “I like you” message to someone.
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I subscribe to the idea that personality is like a muscle.
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