But all you can do is ignore the annoying hum of the machine and focus on making art that makes you excited to be alive.
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.
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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 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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We really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around.
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It’s cool but also a little creepy.
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Is my music indicative of a caffeine-surged green liquid? Probably not.
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It makes you more choosy and also more receptive to absorb anything for 15 seconds.
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There’s nothing better than having an experience now that’s the exact same thing.
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Because anybody can find their fan base through the Internet.
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When you completely extract yourself from anything familiar.
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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 remember a time when I would hear a band and then want to hear everything that sounded like 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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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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Like the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends.
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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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I don’t mind that I’ve created an identity around what I do.
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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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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 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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Let alone 15 minutes – to decide what you think about it.
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Memory is just as much of an instrument as anything else in music.
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You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.
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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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I wanted it to feel like I was tapping into a thing, even if it wasn’t.
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I find it so funny that for the first time in history, people have access to this great equalizer in the Internet, which grants everyone the same knowledge base.
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