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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
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Asking is, at its core, a collaboration.
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Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.
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Almost every important human encounter boils down to the act, and the art, of asking.
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It would nice to live in a world where art can just be art!
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I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.
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We all got used to living in the cloud of unknowing.
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Make me famous, okay? he said, brightly. Maybe I'll finally get some free coffee around here.
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I hate being ignored.
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it's the closest thing I have to church.
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i know which side of the train i was on today.
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Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.
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When you connect with people, they want to help you.
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Take on the pain and wear it as a shirt.
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He'd believed for a long time, deep down, that people didn't actually fall in love. That they were all faking it.
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If you're willing to take risks, Twitter is a vast amusement park of interesting life possibilities.
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I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.
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The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.
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Twitter fascinates me because it's real. It feels kind of unreal, but it makes very real things happen.
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I suppose I'm happy to sell my time and energy, but I'm not happy to sell my initial creative time.
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We've been watching you, and we have evidence that you have NO IDEA WHAT YOU'RE DOING. You
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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.
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Certain art hungers for context.
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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.
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When we really see each other, we want to help each other.
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I still get laughed at but it doesn't bother me,
I'm just so glad to hear laughter around me. — Amanda Palmer
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.
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I maintain couchsurfing and crowdsurfing are basically the same thing - you're falling into the audience and you're trusting each other.
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We are human and our nature is to air.
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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
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?
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We were far more interested in serving our slowly growing, tight-knit community of weirdos than we were in topping the charts.
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Nothing is crueller than children who come from good homes.
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Crowdfunding as an idea itself isn't new - bands have been doing it since the dawn of time.
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How do we let people pay for music?
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If you love people enough, they will give you everything.
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Eat the pain. Send it back into the void as love.
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I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.
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What's important is that I absorb, listen, talk, connect, help, and share. Constantly.
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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.
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There's really no honor in proving that you can carry the entire load on your own shoulders. And ... it's lonely
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I hate it when people don't spend the night.
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Limitations can expand, rather than shrink, the creative flow.
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WHEN YOU CANNOT JOKE ABOUT THE DARKNESS OF LIFE, THAT'S WHEN THE DARKNESS TAKES OVER.
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Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record.
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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.
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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
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.'
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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 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
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.
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It's not easy to ask ... asking makes you vulnerable.
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Nobody ever sees me. Thank you.
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If you want the world to pay for projects, you have to be able to display why you're worthy.
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I want to be happy. i want to make people happy. i do not need to be rich to do that.
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When you trust people to help you, they often do.
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I am bigger on the inside
But you have to come inside to see me — Amanda Palmer
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.
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This impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist. If
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I was just a very dark kid. My family was complicated.
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In truth, feeling love from a distance is just lonely. Maybe even worse than no love at all, because it feels so unnatural.
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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.
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My blog readership grew steadily as I started to dump more of my inner self onto the page. I
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I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.
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You know what's really cool? Wake up every morning, decide what you feel like doing, and do it.
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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.
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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.
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The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist
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Just take the fucking donuts.
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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.
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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.
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Those who can ask without shame are viewing themselves in collaboration with - rather than in competition with - the world.
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Thank God my best friend's a therapist.
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For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community - connectors and openers, not untouchable stars.
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We have the power to help each other.
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