Amanda Palmer Quotes
Top 88 wise famous quotes and sayings by Amanda Palmer
Amanda Palmer Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Maybe we should stop asking how do we get people to pay for music, and start asking how do we let them pay for music? from Ted Talk
He'd believed for a long time, deep down, that people didn't actually fall in love. That they were all faking it.
If you're willing to take risks, Twitter is a vast amusement park of interesting life possibilities.
I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.
The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.
Twitter fascinates me because it's real. It feels kind of unreal, but it makes very real things happen.
The perfect tools aren't going to help us if we can't face each other and give and receive fearlessly, but more important, to ask without shame.
And once I'd unloaded all my teenage pain on him, he knew the way to win my trust. He never told me what to do. Instead, he told me stories.
Our nature is to desperately want to believe and to take what we believe is the quickest path there even against our better judgment.
I maintain couchsurfing and crowdsurfing are basically the same thing - you're falling into the audience and you're trusting each other.
The pattern's laid out on the bed
With dozens of colors of thread
But you've got the needle
I guess that's the point in the end
With dozens of colors of thread
But you've got the needle
I guess that's the point in the end
How do we create a world in which people don't think of art just as a product, but as a relationship?
We were far more interested in serving our slowly growing, tight-knit community of weirdos than we were in topping the charts.
I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any kind of process of, just, life.
There's really no honor in proving that you can carry the entire load on your own shoulders. And ... it's lonely
It was essential to feel thankful for the few who stopped to watch or listen, instead of wasting energy on resenting the majority who passed me by.
And I wonder does everyone else live this way
a succession of tests
a triumphant success
each time I'm still intact at the end of the day
a succession of tests
a triumphant success
each time I'm still intact at the end of the day
I suffer mornings most of all
I feel so powerless and small
By ten o'clock I'm back in bed
Fighting the jury in my head
I feel so powerless and small
By ten o'clock I'm back in bed
Fighting the jury in my head
I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.
This impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist. If
In truth, feeling love from a distance is just lonely. Maybe even worse than no love at all, because it feels so unnatural.
On many days, harder than the act of making the art itself is the act of sharing it and living in a culture that you know is built to tear you down.
I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.
I don't feel at home in New Orleans. I don't feel at home in Austin or L.A. And I just felt immediately at home in northern Australia.
Everyone I know shares toothbrushes. Everyone I know sleeps on each other's floor. Everyone I know uses what they've got and shares what they've got.
The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist
And when you're afraid of someone's judgment, you can't connect with them. You're too preoccupied with the task of impressing them.
I've always been a creative workaholic. I have never had a period of my life where I didn't have at least half a dozen projects going on at once.
Those who can ask without shame are viewing themselves in collaboration with - rather than in competition with - the world.
For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community - connectors and openers, not untouchable stars.