It’s difficult because it forces you to really get creative.
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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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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I would’ve done when I was 16, like texting a really awkward “I like you” message to someone.
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When you completely extract yourself from anything familiar.
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You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.
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So I wanted to create soundscapes that are evocative of places that only exist in your head – that’s where the fun, psychedelic stuff happens anyway.
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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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But I can’t ignore that there are things that inspire me, and I love celebrating those.
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I think it’s more about trying to just focus exclusively on writing music and making that a viable, sustainable lifestyle.
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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 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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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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Let alone 15 minutes – to decide what you think about it.
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I don’t mind that I’ve created an identity around what I do.
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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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“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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