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 PALOMOLike the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends.
More Alan Palomo Quotes
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Let alone 15 minutes – to decide what you think about it.
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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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You should always choose your associations wisely because people create impressions around the music.
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It makes you more choosy and also more receptive to absorb anything for 15 seconds.
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And sometimes you have to let it go limp and detach yourself from any associations.
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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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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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Like the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends.
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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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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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I remember a time when I would hear a band and then want to hear everything that sounded like it;
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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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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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There’s nothing better than having an experience now that’s the exact same thing.
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