There’s this really amazing quote from Jim Jarmusch about celebrating your theft that I think has become more and more prominent in 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.
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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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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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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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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 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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We really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around.
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You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.
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Memory is just as much of an instrument as anything else in music.
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But it’s not anything like what we envisioned it to be. It’s almost like there’s too much choice.
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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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It makes you more choosy and also more receptive to absorb anything for 15 seconds.
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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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