Life as it should be: all friends, all art, all music, all love, all the time. — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy. — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community — connectors and openers, not untouchable stars. — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
On many days, harder than the act of making the art itself is the act of sharing it and living in a… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
I firmly believe in music being as free as possible. Unlocked. Shared and spread. In order for artists to survive and create,… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
One of the best things about Kickstarter and crowdfunding and the collapse of the music business is a lot of artists like… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
You get the feeling that on a lot of days the audience for most music would kind of rather not be faced… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
I've watched so many women, from Kathleen Hanna all the way up to Taylor Swift, whether they're pop artists or rock stars… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
I never wanted to grow a thicker skin; I felt a real sense of pride in my thin skin, and in a… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
There’s no “correct path” to becoming a real artist. You might think you’ll gain legitimacy by going to university, getting published, getting… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
I see everybody arguing about what the value of music should be instead of what I think the bigger conversation is, which… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
You are an artist when you make someone feel something deep and unexpected. — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound. — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
If you come across an American artist right now who has no political opinions or is afraid of talking politics, be very… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
There's a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows. — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
“To erase the possibility of empathy is also to erase the possibility of art. Theater, fiction, horror stories, love stories. This is… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
In both the art and the business worlds, the difference between the amateurs and the professionals is simple: The professionals know they're… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
There are so many people, so many artists, so many magazines, so many theater companies, so many people trying to raise money… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
When you're an artist, nobody ever tells you or hits you with the magic wand of legitimacy. You have to hit your… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
I kind of rely on my artist friends to make my physical music worth buying by having them all come together and… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
If you stuck me in a room and gave me art-making tools but told me no one would ever see the results,… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
“The Art of Asking is a book about cultivating trust and getting as close as possible to love, vulnerability, and connection. Uncomfortably… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
What I have found is, so much of that is like a Chinese finger trap: the more you play to the dark, the more… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
In some way, my fundamental feeling about music is that it's impossible to put a price tag on it. Human beings made music before… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame. — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
I think the Internet really sussed things into perspective. Because twelve years ago, I could spend my days on writing and running my band… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
Life as it should be: all friends, all art, all music, all love, all the time. — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
There's a part of me that is really, really happy with all of my success lately because of what it can get me and… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
I'd actually say that every musician is a human being, and that not everybody likes being social. But with music, there are all these… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
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… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
I had a real come-to-Jesus a couple of years ago when I started to see the direct line between feminism and everything else -… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
