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.
ALAN PALOMOThere’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.
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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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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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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“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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I subscribe to the idea that personality is like a muscle.
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And sometimes you have to let it go limp and detach yourself from any associations.
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Like the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends.
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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 wanted it to feel like I was tapping into a thing, even if it wasn’t.
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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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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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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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But it’s not anything like what we envisioned it to be. It’s almost like there’s too much choice.
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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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