Amanda Palmer Quotes

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• For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community — connectors and openers, not untouchable stars.
• I firmly believe in music being as free as possible. Unlocked. Shared and spread. In order for artists to survive and create, their audiences need…
• I maintain couchsurfing and crowdsurfing are basically the same thing — you're falling into the audience and you're trusting each other.
• I think people have been obsessed with the wrong question, which is, ‘How do we make people pay for music?’ What if we started asking,…
• I want to live in a world where Miley (or any female musician) can twerk wildly at 20, wear a full-cover floral hippie mumu at…
• I'm bisexual, but it's not the sort of thing I spent a lot of time thinking about … I've slept with girls; I've slept with…
• Nothing is crueller than children who come from good homes.
• In other words, let's give our young women the right weapons to fight with as they charge naked into battle, instead of ordering them to…
• The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist
• We can only connect the dots we collect, which makes everything you write about you... your connections are the thread that you weave into the…
• 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…
• There’s no “correct path” to becoming a real artist. You might think you’ll gain legitimacy by going to university, getting published, getting signed to a…
• One of the best things about Kickstarter and crowdfunding and the collapse of the music business is a lot of artists like me have been…
• When we really see each other, we want to help each other.
• When you trust people to help you, they often do.
• If you love people enough, they will give you everything.
• I want to be happy. i want to make people happy. i do not need to be rich to do that.
• Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.
• Bands like Nirvana had theatrical sensibilities, playing with image, challenging assumptions people were making about them, the apex being Kurt Cobain in a dress to…
• Crowdfunding as an idea itself isn't new - bands have been doing it since the dawn of time.

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