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Portrait of Amanda Palmer

Amanda Palmer

(1976) Singer

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Amanda Palmer is a singer, best known for Live Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction.

Quick Facts About Amanda Palmer

Born: April 30, 1976
Profession: Singer
Notable works: Live Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction
Spouse: Anthony Robert Alexander

About Amanda Palmer

Amanda MacKinnon Palmer is an American singer, songwriter, musician and performance artist. She is the lead vocalist, pianist and lyricist of the Dresden Dolls, also performs solo, was part of Evelyn Evelyn and the Grand Theft Orchestra, and helped popularize music crowdfunding.

Quotes by Amanda Palmer · Page 3

I suffer mornings most of all I feel so powerless and small By ten o'clock I'm back in bed Fighting the jury…

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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…

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If I were a guy, it would be, you know, just a different set of problems I have to carry along.

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

Art

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

Art

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WHEN YOU CANNOT JOKE ABOUT THE DARKNESS OF LIFE, THAT’S WHEN THE DARKNESS TAKES OVER.

Darkness

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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…

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If your writing is good, if it resonates, if it connects the dots for anybody out there, the lovers will come, the…

Balance

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I think one of the greatest gifts you can give to someone is just access to the possibility of freedom that you…

Access

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There's something advantageous about being a woman in rock versus, say, a woman in chemistry or construction. There's definitely a built-in sexism…

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We can only connect the dots we collect, which makes everything you write about you... your connections are the thread that you…

Connections

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I think I can define my entire life, virtuosity and business philosophy down to the core fundamental that I absolutely hate being…

Artist

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Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me. Asking with condescension says: I have the power over you.…

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It feels like it is a daily work and an ongoing task to undo all of the f - - g programming…

Bullshit

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I want to live in a world where Miley (or any female musician) can twerk wildly at 20, wear a full-cover floral…

Body

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

Ability

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If you come across an American artist right now who has no political opinions or is afraid of talking politics, be very…

Art

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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.

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Collecting the dots. Then connecting them. And then sharing the connections with those around you. This is how a creative human works.…

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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.

Happiness

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You know, there are so many snarky angry critics out there who are just sort of looking to tear down whoever is…

Angry

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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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I make the music that I want to make and make the show that I want to make. If you like it,…

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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.

Audience

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“No puedes pedir lo que no sabes que existe. No puedes pedir lo que no conoces. Ese era mi mundo. Era lo…

Amor

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I remember being a teenager and being really impressed by "let's sit around and b*tch" people, and I have so little time…

Being a teenager

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

Alchemy

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I feel an extraordinary amount of sympathy for anybody working at a major label right now because their lives are over.

Body work

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

Art

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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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The perfect tools aren't going to help us if we can't face each other and give and receive fearlessly, but more important,…

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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…

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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…

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

Career

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There's no blueprint; getting married doesn't make you boring, having kids doesn't make you boring, having money doesn't necessarily have to make…

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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…

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There's really no honor in proving that you can carry the entire load on your own shoulders. Andit's lonely.

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What did I do for u to say good bye I hope u know that I will also love u I hope…

Being hurt by someone you love

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There's nothing more threatening than a powerful woman, and there's nothing more threatening to the current order of things than women powerfully…

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