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.
ALAN PALOMOI have this eerie feeling that by the time I’m 33, reality will not exist in the same plane as it did before.
More Alan Palomo Quotes
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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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And sometimes you have to let it go limp and detach yourself from any associations.
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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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Like the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends.
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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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It’s difficult because it forces you to really get creative.
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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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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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There’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.
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it opens opportunities up for talented people along with people like Rebecca Black.
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I don’t mind that I’ve created an identity around what I do.
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It makes you more choosy and also more receptive to absorb anything for 15 seconds.
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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 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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