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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 who is the lead vocalist, pianist, and lyricist of the duo the Dresden Dolls. She performs as a solo artist and was also a member of the duo Evelyn Evelyn and the lead singer and songwriter of Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra. She has gained a cult fanbase and was one of the first musical artists to popularize the use of crowdfunding websites.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Amanda Palmer · Page 2

Comparing yourself to the people like you, comparing yourself to the people who aren't like you, looking at how many records you've…

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Donald Trump is going to make punk rock great again.

Punk

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“i know which side of the train i was on today.”

Fitness

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I nurture my close relationships like priceless lamps. That's part of why the job itself is inherently difficult and kind of a…

Close relationship

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When we really see each other, we want to help each other.

Helping

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I've always felt like an outsider across the board, since day one. The challenge has been to simply not pay attention to…

Attention

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I have a handful of really close relationships in my life and I depend on those people heavily to carry me through…

Close relationship

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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…

Currents

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

Band

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All of my music, my stage show, my personality, my blog, my twitter feed, anything that's made me me, and a huge…

Battle

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Eat the pain. Send it back into the void as love.

Love

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The cool thing too, as you get older, you get way better at identifying who's an ally and who isn't. And who…

Allies

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How do we let people pay for music?

Inspirational

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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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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…

Austin

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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…

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One day u say u miss me the next u say I love u I so dume to say I love u…

I dont give a fuck

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“i carried the child for six hours on a big jet plane to the other side of the country, where he is…

Children

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I've been in a recording studio enough times to know that it is not the best place to multitask. Doing a couple…

About

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The challenge is to just focus on what's actually happening, focus on the people who get it, and focus on the people…

Challenges

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Men find powerful women so threatening, and finding a partner was starting to look laughable, because I would be really attracted to…

Feelings

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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 am bigger on the inside But you have to come inside to see me

Bigger

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There was a dance that everyone was doing that was heavily skewed with the power in one direction, but the dance was…

Dance

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“Los que piden sin miedo aprender a decir dos cosas, con o sin palabras, a los que tiene delante: "Tengo derecho a…

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