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.
ALAN PALOMOYou 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.
More Alan Palomo Quotes
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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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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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I wanted it to feel like I was tapping into a thing, even if it wasn’t.
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I don’t mind that I’ve created an identity around what I do.
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Let alone 15 minutes – to decide what you think about it.
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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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“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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And sometimes you have to let it go limp and detach yourself from any associations.
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Memory is just as much of an instrument as anything else in music.
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It makes you more choosy and also more receptive to absorb anything for 15 seconds.
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Is my music indicative of a caffeine-surged green liquid? Probably not.
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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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I remember a time when I would hear a band and then want to hear everything that sounded like it;
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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 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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