There’s something really fun and spooky about that teenage feeling of narcissism or indestructibility.
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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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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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 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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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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You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.
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Is my music indicative of a caffeine-surged green liquid? Probably not.
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It’s cool but also a little creepy.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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