I would’ve done when I was 16, like texting a really awkward “I like you” message to someone.
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 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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“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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It’s difficult because it forces you to really get creative.
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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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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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You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.
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When you completely extract yourself from anything familiar.
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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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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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I don’t mind that I’ve created an identity around what I do.
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Because anybody can find their fan base through the Internet.
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There’s something really fun and spooky about that teenage feeling of narcissism or indestructibility.
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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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Let alone 15 minutes – to decide what you think about it.
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Like the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends.
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