You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.
ALAN PALOMOThe Internet really does create this dimension around the music that’s always in relation to what else is happening at the moment.
More Alan Palomo Quotes
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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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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 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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I remember a time when I would hear a band and then want to hear everything that sounded like it;
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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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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 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 wanted it to feel like I was tapping into a thing, even if it wasn’t.
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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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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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I don’t mind that I’ve created an identity around what I do.
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Memory is just as much of an instrument as anything else in music.
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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.
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I subscribe to the idea that personality is like a muscle.
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Let alone 15 minutes – to decide what you think about it.
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