Amanda Palmer quotes

Amanda Palmer is an American singer-songwriter, performer, and author known for her theatrical music and bold stage presence. As a founding member of The Dresden Dolls and for her solo work, she has pioneered alternative and crowd-funded approaches in music. She continues to inspire audiences worldwide with her candid artistry and advocacy for creative freedom. Here are 42 of her quotes:

I'm bisexual, but it's not the sort of thing I spent a lot of time thinking about ... I've slept with girls; I've slept with guys, so I guess that's what they call it! I'm not anti trying to use language to simplify our lives.

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I still get laughed at but it doesn't bother me, I'm just so glad to hear laughter around me.

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you're rich in love you're great bed you'll see the world you'll knock 'em dead and all the thick books that you've read will count for nothing in the end.

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i am a herd of cats and a drunk shepherd with alzheimer's all at once. i am the walrus.

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

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I hate being ignored.

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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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A turn, a screw, a pull, a twist, the drug that makes you prettiest.

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I'm not gonna live my life on one side of an ampersand.

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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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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 write a lot, but it's not all fantastic. There's plenty of terrible crap. We work on a few things at a time, let some things fall away, make changes.

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

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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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If you love people enough, they will give you everything.

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

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

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

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