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I maintain couchsurfing and crowdsurfing are basically the same thing — you're falling into the audience and you're trusting each other.

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Amanda Palmer
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: April 30
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I want to live in a world where Miley (or any female musician) can twerk wildly at 20, wear a full-cover floral hippie mumu at 37, show up at 47 in see-through latex, and pose semi-naked, like Keith & co, on the cover of Rolling Stone at 57 and be APPLAUDED for being so comfortable with her body.
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I don't try to make anybody outside happy.
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If you love people enough, they will give you everything.
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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 want to be happy. i want to make people happy. i do not need to be rich to do that.
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How you sound. How you look. Are you fat? Those are things that could be really irritating.
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If you come across an American artist right now who has no political opinions or is afraid of talking politics, be very concerned.
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I feel that part of my life's artwork is creatively dealing with all this negativity and anger and rage and hatred coming from whatever corners it's coming from and somehow manifesting all of that anger into something positive, which is such a hard job.
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If we can repair things emotionally, a lot of other things would follow.
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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 hate being ignored.
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I think being a woman in any business that's dominated by men, you have your garden variety pros and cons, where you learn how to focus and harness your various powers and weaknesses for better or for good.
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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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The world needs actual excitement and emotion more than it needs cool people.
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I am bigger on the inside But you have to come inside to see me
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I don't think of myself as particularly cursed or blessed. I think I got dealt a set of cards, and I'm playing with them, sometimes in heels, sometimes in combat boots.
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There are so many people, so many artists, so many magazines, so many theater companies, so many people trying to raise money for so many things that it's easy to look around and just feel powerless or helpless, because even if you have some resources, you can't help everybody.
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You are an artist when you make someone feel something deep and unexpected.
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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 Im in the middle of a battlefield.
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