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Amanda Palmer

American,  Musician
Total Quotes : 39
Deep Tools Seen

If you stuck me in a room and gave me art-making tools but told me no one would ever see the results, I don't think I'd have much desire to make art. What I do comes from a deep desire to be seen and to see others.

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Career Never Set

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

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New Been Itself

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

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Art Shame Very

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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Dress Image Nirvana

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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Hate Being Ignored Ignored

I hate being ignored.

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Album Greatest Hits Pile

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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Goal Doing Theatrical

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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Complicated Kid Very

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

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Songwriting Cave Line

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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Medical Half Feels

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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Artist Been Rather

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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Human Being Everybody

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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Fan Massive Twin Peaks

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

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Life Possibilities Willing

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

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My Life Middle Keeping

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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Thank God Friend Thank

Thank God my best friend's a therapist.

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Other Some Including

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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World Needs Actual

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

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Ideas Disciplined Crank

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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