Amanda Palmer Quotes

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Amanda Palmer

Profession : Musician

Birth : April 30, 1976

Twitter fascinates me because it's real. It feels kind of unreal, but it makes very real things happen.

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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 ingredients to the business that have nothing to do with writing songs or playing an instrument.

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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 make a point.

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I was just a very dark kid. My family was complicated.

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Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record.

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Neil Gaiman swooped into my life though another friend, Jason Webley, who knew we were fans of each other's work and introduced us via email. Neil and I, like me and Ben, just hit it off instantly.

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If you're willing to take risks, Twitter is a vast amusement park of interesting life possibilities.

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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 of takes of a song and running out to check your email to talk to someone about video production really is not good.

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The challenge in my life really is keeping the balance between feeling creatively energized and fulfilled without feeling overwhelmed and like I'm in the middle of a battlefield.

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I see everybody arguing about what the value of music should be instead of what I think the bigger conversation is, which is that music has value, it's subjective and we're moving to a new era where the audience is taking more responsibility for supporting artists at whatever level.

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The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.

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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 don't have to be totally depressed and enslaved by your own environment.

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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 a dozen projects going on at once.

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

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I have used Twitter for so many things, from places to stay, places to go, things to do, things I need, medical advice, you name it. Especially when I'm on tour, it really feels like I'm being taken care of by half a million people. It is like having a mom.

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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 at home in northern Australia.

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

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