“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 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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It’s difficult because it forces you to really get creative.
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It makes you more choosy and also more receptive to absorb anything for 15 seconds.
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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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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 think it’s more about trying to just focus exclusively on writing music and making that a viable, sustainable lifestyle.
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There’s something really fun and spooky about that teenage feeling of narcissism or indestructibility.
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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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I would’ve done when I was 16, like texting a really awkward “I like you” message to someone.
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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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I never willfully want to write the same record twice, which is probably why I jump from project to project.
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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 subscribe to the idea that personality is like a muscle.
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Is my music indicative of a caffeine-surged green liquid? Probably not.
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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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