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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 — Amanda Palmer

Asking is, at its core, a collaboration. — Amanda Palmer

Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy. — Amanda Palmer

Almost every important human encounter boils down to the act, and the art, of asking. — Amanda Palmer

It would nice to live in a world where art can just be art! — Amanda Palmer

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out. — Amanda Palmer

We all got used to living in the cloud of unknowing. — Amanda Palmer

Make me famous, okay? he said, brightly. Maybe I'll finally get some free coffee around here. — Amanda Palmer

I hate being ignored. — Amanda Palmer

it's the closest thing I have to church. — Amanda Palmer

i know which side of the train i was on today. — Amanda Palmer

Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable. — Amanda Palmer

When you connect with people, they want to help you. — Amanda Palmer

Take on the pain and wear it as a shirt. — Amanda Palmer

He'd believed for a long time, deep down, that people didn't actually fall in love. That they were all faking it. — Amanda Palmer

If you're willing to take risks, Twitter is a vast amusement park of interesting life possibilities. — Amanda Palmer

I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame. — Amanda Palmer

The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll. — Amanda Palmer

Twitter fascinates me because it's real. It feels kind of unreal, but it makes very real things happen. — Amanda Palmer

I suppose I'm happy to sell my time and energy, but I'm not happy to sell my initial creative time. — Amanda Palmer

We've been watching you, and we have evidence that you have NO IDEA WHAT YOU'RE DOING. You — Amanda Palmer

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. — Amanda Palmer

Asking is, in itself, the fundamental building block of any relationship. — Amanda Palmer

Certain art hungers for context. — Amanda Palmer

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. — Amanda Palmer

When we really see each other, we want to help each other. — Amanda Palmer

I still get laughed at but it doesn't bother me,
I'm just so glad to hear laughter around me. — Amanda Palmer

Our nature is to desperately want to believe and to take what we believe is the quickest path there even against our better judgment. — Amanda Palmer

I'm still trying to express my truth, my place in the world, my belief. — Amanda Palmer

I maintain couchsurfing and crowdsurfing are basically the same thing - you're falling into the audience and you're trusting each other. — Amanda Palmer

We are human and our nature is to air. — Amanda Palmer

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 — Amanda Palmer

How do we create a world in which people don't think of art just as a product, but as a relationship? — Amanda Palmer

We were far more interested in serving our slowly growing, tight-knit community of weirdos than we were in topping the charts. — Amanda Palmer

Before I saw your talk, I always thought of street performers as beggars. — Amanda Palmer

Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art. — Eddi Reader

Nothing is crueller than children who come from good homes. — Amanda Palmer

Crowdfunding as an idea itself isn't new - bands have been doing it since the dawn of time. — Amanda Palmer

If we can repair things emotionally, a lot of other things would follow. — Amanda Palmer

How do we let people pay for music? — Amanda Palmer

Life as it should be: all friends, all art, all music, all love, all the time. — Amanda Palmer

If you love people enough, they will give you everything. — Amanda Palmer

Eat the pain. Send it back into the void as love. — Amanda Palmer

The world needs actual excitement and emotion more than it needs cool people. — Amanda Palmer

I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound. — Amanda Palmer

There's a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows. — Amanda Palmer

What's important is that I absorb, listen, talk, connect, help, and share. Constantly. — Amanda Palmer

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. — Amanda Palmer

There's really no honor in proving that you can carry the entire load on your own shoulders. And ... it's lonely — Amanda Palmer

I hate it when people don't spend the night. — Amanda Palmer

Limitations can expand, rather than shrink, the creative flow. — Amanda Palmer

WHEN YOU CANNOT JOKE ABOUT THE DARKNESS OF LIFE, THAT'S WHEN THE DARKNESS TAKES OVER. — Amanda Palmer

Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record. — Amanda Palmer

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. — Amanda Palmer

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 — Amanda Palmer

I'm a massive fan of David Lynch and 'Twin Peaks.' — Amanda Palmer

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 — Amanda Palmer

I am not afraid.
fuck safety.
i rock on purpose ALL THE TIME — Amanda Palmer

Given the opportunity, some small consistent portion of the population will happily pay for art. — Amanda Palmer

I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment. — Amanda Palmer

It's not easy to ask ... asking makes you vulnerable. — Amanda Palmer

Nobody ever sees me. Thank you. — Amanda Palmer

If you want the world to pay for projects, you have to be able to display why you're worthy. — Amanda Palmer

I want to be happy. i want to make people happy. i do not need to be rich to do that. — Amanda Palmer

When you trust people to help you, they often do. — Amanda Palmer

I am bigger on the inside
But you have to come inside to see me — Amanda Palmer

I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is. — Amanda Palmer

You are an artist when you make someone feel something deep and unexpected. — Amanda Palmer

This impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist. If — Amanda Palmer

I was just a very dark kid. My family was complicated. — Amanda Palmer

In truth, feeling love from a distance is just lonely. Maybe even worse than no love at all, because it feels so unnatural. — Amanda Palmer

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. — Amanda Palmer

My blog readership grew steadily as I started to dump more of my inner self onto the page. I — Amanda Palmer

I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it. — Amanda Palmer

I WILL NEVER HAVE TO HAVE A REAL JOB AGAIN. And technically? I never really did. — Amanda Palmer

You know what's really cool? Wake up every morning, decide what you feel like doing, and do it. — Amanda Palmer

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. — Amanda Palmer

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. — Amanda Palmer

The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist — Amanda Palmer

Just take the fucking donuts. — Amanda Palmer

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. — Amanda Palmer

This is how a creative human works. Collecting, connecting, sharing. — Amanda Palmer

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. — Amanda Palmer

Those who can ask without shame are viewing themselves in collaboration with - rather than in competition with - the world. — Amanda Palmer

Thank God my best friend's a therapist. — Amanda Palmer

For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community - connectors and openers, not untouchable stars. — Amanda Palmer

Everybody out there is winging it to some degree, of this we can be pretty sure. — Amanda Palmer

We have the power to help each other. — Amanda Palmer

It's hard to work on an assembly line of broken hearts Not supposed to fix them, only strip and sell the parts — Amanda Palmer