Like the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends.
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.
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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’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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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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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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But I can’t ignore that there are things that inspire me, and I love celebrating those.
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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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Memory is just as much of an instrument as anything else in music.
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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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Let alone 15 minutes – to decide what you think about it.
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And sometimes you have to let it go limp and detach yourself from any associations.
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It makes you more choosy and also more receptive to absorb anything for 15 seconds.
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It’s cool but also a little creepy.
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I subscribe to the idea that personality is like a muscle.
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Is my music indicative of a caffeine-surged green liquid? Probably not.
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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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