Things are changing at such a rate that you really can’t get too familiar with anything that you own in relation to what sort of functionality it has in your life.
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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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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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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Memory is just as much of an instrument as anything else 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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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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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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When you completely extract yourself from anything familiar.
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It makes you more choosy and also more receptive to absorb anything for 15 seconds.
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I subscribe to the idea that personality is like a muscle.
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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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You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.
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Is my music indicative of a caffeine-surged green liquid? Probably not.
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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 think it’s more about trying to just focus exclusively on writing music and making that a viable, sustainable lifestyle.
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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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You should always choose your associations wisely because people create impressions around the music.
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Because anybody can find their fan base through the Internet.
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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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It’s difficult because it forces you to really get creative.
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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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And sometimes you have to let it go limp and detach yourself from any associations.
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Let alone 15 minutes – to decide what you think about it.
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It’s cool but also a little creepy.
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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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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 opens opportunities up for talented people along with people like Rebecca Black.
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