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.
ALAN PALOMOSo 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.
More Alan Palomo Quotes
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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 remember a time when I would hear a band and then want to hear everything that sounded like it;
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It makes you more choosy and also more receptive to absorb anything for 15 seconds.
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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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You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.
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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 would’ve done when I was 16, like texting a really awkward “I like you” message to someone.
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Let alone 15 minutes – to decide what you think about it.
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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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Like the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends.
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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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I don’t mind that I’ve created an identity around what I do.
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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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It’s difficult because it forces you to really get creative.
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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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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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But I can’t ignore that there are things that inspire me, and I love celebrating those.
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You should always choose your associations wisely because people create impressions around the music.
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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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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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Is my music indicative of a caffeine-surged green liquid? Probably not.
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There’s nothing better than having an experience now that’s the exact same thing.
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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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