I think it’s more about trying to just focus exclusively on writing music and making that a viable, sustainable lifestyle.
ALAN PALOMOI 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.
More Alan Palomo Quotes
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Let alone 15 minutes – to decide what you think about it.
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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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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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Memory is just as much of an instrument as anything else in music.
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There’s nothing better than having an experience now that’s the exact same thing.
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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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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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It’s cool but also a little creepy.
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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 makes you more choosy and also more receptive to absorb anything for 15 seconds.
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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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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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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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I subscribe to the idea that personality is like a muscle.
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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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