“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.
ALAN PALOMOThere’s this really amazing quote from Jim Jarmusch about celebrating your theft that I think has become more and more prominent in music.
More Alan Palomo Quotes
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You should always choose your associations wisely because people create impressions around the music.
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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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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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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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Memory is just as much of an instrument as anything else in music.
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I don’t mind that I’ve created an identity around what I do.
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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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Like the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends.
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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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Let alone 15 minutes – to decide what you think about it.
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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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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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It makes you more choosy and also more receptive to absorb anything for 15 seconds.
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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 opens opportunities up for talented people along with people like Rebecca Black.
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