There’s this really amazing quote from Jim Jarmusch about celebrating your theft that I think has become more and more prominent in music.
ALAN PALOMOThere’s something really fun and spooky about that teenage feeling of narcissism or indestructibility.
More Alan Palomo Quotes
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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.
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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 opens opportunities up for talented people along with people like Rebecca Black.
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I don’t mind that I’ve created an identity around what I do.
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I subscribe to the idea that personality is like a muscle.
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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.
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And sometimes you have to let it go limp and detach yourself from any associations.
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Because anybody can find their fan base through the Internet.
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You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.
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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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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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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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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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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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But I can’t ignore that there are things that inspire me, and I love celebrating those.
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