It makes you more choosy and also more receptive to absorb anything for 15 seconds.
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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Let alone 15 minutes – to decide what you think about it.
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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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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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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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I find it so funny that for the first time in history, people have access to this great equalizer in the Internet, which grants everyone the same knowledge base.
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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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Memory is just as much of an instrument as anything else in music.
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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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I don’t mind that I’ve created an identity around what I do.
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And sometimes you have to let it go limp and detach yourself from any associations.
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I wanted it to feel like I was tapping into a thing, even if it wasn’t.
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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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We really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around.
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