I don’t mind that I’ve created an identity around what I do.
ALAN PALOMOThere’s something really fun and spooky about that teenage feeling of narcissism or indestructibility.
More Alan Palomo Quotes
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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 subscribe to the idea that personality is like a muscle.
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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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It’s difficult because it forces you to really get creative.
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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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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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Because anybody can find their fan base through the Internet.
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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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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 should always choose your associations wisely because people create impressions around the music.
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And sometimes you have to let it go limp and detach yourself from any associations.
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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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I wanted it to feel like I was tapping into a thing, even if it wasn’t.
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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 think it’s more about trying to just focus exclusively on writing music and making that a viable, sustainable lifestyle.
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Memory is just as much of an instrument as anything else in music.
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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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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 remember a time when I would hear a band and then want to hear everything that sounded like it;
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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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“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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You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.
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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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it opens opportunities up for talented people along with people like Rebecca Black.
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There’s nothing better than having an experience now that’s the exact same thing.
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Let alone 15 minutes – to decide what you think about it.
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