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When you trust people to help you, they often do.

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Amanda Palmer
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: April 30
Blogger
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New York City
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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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I have a handful of really close relationships in my life and I depend on those people heavily to carry me through and to help me stay steady.
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Everyone I know shares toothbrushes. Everyone I know sleeps on each other's floor. Everyone I know uses what they've got and shares what they've got.
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I'm still trying to express my truth, my place in the world, my belief.
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We can only connect the dots we collect, which makes everything you write about you... your connections are the thread that you weave into the cloth that becomes the story that only you can tell.
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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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In other words, let's give our young women the right weapons to fight with as they charge naked into battle, instead of ordering them to get back in the house and put some goddamn clothes on.
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I think I can define my entire life, virtuosity and business philosophy down to the core fundamental that I absolutely hate being told what to do. But like any artist or any human being out there, I desperately want to be loved, and I spend my entire life trying to balance those two facts.
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The minute I spend any energy defending myself, explaining myself, or in the worst case scenario, trying to please those who are criticizing me, I will, you know, just fall off a cliff.
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I firmly believe in music being as free as possible. Unlocked. Shared and spread. In order for artists to survive and create, their audiences need to step up and directly support them.
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There's really no honor in proving that you can carry the entire load on your own shoulders. Andit's lonely.
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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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If I simply do what I've always done, it's never failed me.
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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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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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