Amanda Palmer Quotes

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Amanda Palmer

Profession : Musician

Birth : April 30, 1976

I hate being ignored.

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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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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 they made a lot of other things, including tools.

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There's a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows.

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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 you boring.

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I'm a massive fan of David Lynch and 'Twin Peaks.'

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The world needs actual excitement and emotion more than it needs cool people.

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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 across the board, but I think you're afforded a degree of freedom in rock because, historically, the rules have been flexible.

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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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Meditation, especially for people who don't know very much about it and think it's this very hippy dippy thing, can really be powerful, terrifying even, as it lifts the rug up on your subconscious and the dust comes flying out.

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Thank God my best friend's a therapist.

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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 forced to face our own weird mess about ourselves and what we thought it meant to become musicians.

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You get the feeling that on a lot of days the audience for most music would kind of rather not be faced with the artist, especially because we've been educated to think that the artist are these special creatures are otherwordly and aren't like us.

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People had this idea about becoming rock stars packing stadiums instead of having the goal of becoming what musicians used to be in terms of how they would perform and connect people.

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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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My number-one goal is to never feel like I'm strictly defining myself. The minute I feel like I'm doing that as anything - as theatrical, as feminist, as songwriter - I feel like the minute I name it, I'm stuck in a box.

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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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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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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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I think I've been addicted to openness since long before my rock career. I was terrible as a teenager. I used to go out of my way to make people uncomfortable with personal details. I was always fascinated by the idea that we have these weird, random boundaries between what we do and don't show.

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