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When you trust people to help you, they often do.
Amanda Palmer
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Amanda Palmer
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: April 30
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Men find powerful women so threatening, and finding a partner was starting to look laughable, because I would be really attracted to guys and they would just be so threatened and I didn't like feeling threatening, I didn't want to feel threatened, I didn't want to feel like I was towering over anybody.
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There was a dance that everyone was doing that was heavily skewed with the power in one direction, but the dance was basically working, and then the dance got really disrupted with the first wave of feminism, and nobody found their footing yet - not the guys, not the women.
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While we're over here blocked up in our departments and locked up in our own judgments and dealing with our own crazy problems, they're over there dealing with equivalent problems. One of the things that I am so frightened by lately is that men are having just as difficult a time striking a balance as we are.
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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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Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me. Asking with condescension says: I have the power over you. But asking for help with gratitude says: We have the power to help each other.
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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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There's a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows.
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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 suffer mornings most of all I feel so powerless and small By ten o'clock I'm back in bed Fighting the jury in my head
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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 think people have been obsessed with the wrong question, which is how do we make people pay for music? What if we started asking, how do we let people pay for music?
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You're not going to be perfect, you're not going to stop berating yourself, you're not going to stop the comparisons, you're not going to stop the judgment, but you can become evermore mindful of it, and that has to be good enough.
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I think I've always felt as a band and as a musician and a music business person, I've always felt like an outsider, period.
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When you're an artist, nobody ever tells you or hits you with the magic wand of legitimacy. You have to hit your own head with your own handmade wand. And you feel stupid doing it.
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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 don't try to make anybody outside happy.
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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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The challenge is to just focus on what's actually happening, focus on the people who get it, and focus on the people who are listening.
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There's nothing more threatening than a powerful woman, and there's nothing more threatening to the current order of things than women powerfully owning their own narrative. It's so threatening to people, to women as well, and it's threatening the order of things.
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If you love people enough, they will give you everything.
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