Amanda Palmer Quotes

• Thank God my best friend’s a therapist.

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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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• 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’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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• I’m a massive fan of David Lynch and ‘Twin Peaks.’

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

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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 performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.

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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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• 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 hate being ignored.

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• Crowdfunding as an idea itself isn’t new – bands have been doing it since the dawn of time.

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

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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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Amanda Palmer (39)

Birth:	30th April, 1976
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Artist, Composer, Lyricist, Musician, Pianist, Singer

About

Amanda Palmer is an American performer who first rose to prominence as the lead singer, pianist, and lyricist/composer of the duo The Dresden Dolls. She has had a successful solo career, is also one half of the duo Evelyn Evelyn, and is the lead singer and songwriter of Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra.

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