You should always choose your associations wisely because people create impressions around the music.
ALAN PALOMOThere’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.
More Alan Palomo Quotes
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I subscribe to the idea that personality is like a muscle.
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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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Like the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends.
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Let alone 15 minutes – to decide what you think about it.
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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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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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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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I remember a time when I would hear a band and then want to hear everything that sounded like it;
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Because anybody can find their fan base through the Internet.
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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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There’s this really amazing quote from Jim Jarmusch about celebrating your theft that I think has become more and more prominent in music.
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And sometimes you have to let it go limp and detach yourself from any associations.
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When you completely extract yourself from anything familiar.
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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 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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