Quote

When you cannot joke about the darkness of life, that’s when the darkness takes over.

Amanda Palmer

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Amanda Palmer
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: April 30
Blogger
Composer
Musician
Pianist
Playwright
Recording Artist
Singer
Songwriter
Street Artist
Writer
New York City
New York
Amanda MacKinnon Gaiman Palmer
Amanda MacKinnon Palmer
Amanda Fucking Palmer
Joke
Jokes
Darkness
Takes
Cannot
Life

More quotes by Amanda Palmer

Image
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.
Amanda Palmer
Image
I kind of rely on my artist friends to make my physical music worth buying by having them all come together and create beautiful artwork that everyone is gonna want to own to support my record.
Amanda Palmer
Image
If we can repair things emotionally, a lot of other things would follow.
Amanda Palmer
Image
I get really fantastic results when I just get out of my own way.
Amanda Palmer
Image
If I were a guy, it would be, you know, just a different set of problems I have to carry along.
Amanda Palmer
Image
All of my music, my stage show, my personality, my blog, my twitter feed, anything that's made me me, and a huge part of why people like and respect me, is that I just don't spend much energy on that other stuff. It's not worth it. It's a losing battle too. You're just screwed the minute you engage.
Amanda Palmer
Image
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.
Amanda Palmer
Image
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.
Amanda Palmer
Image
There's a part of me that is really, really happy with all of my success lately because of what it can get me and what it can buy me in the fact that my music will hopefully reach more people. But it also makes me a little bit miserable because the minute the spotlight is on you, people start flinging sh*t at you for whatever reason.
Amanda Palmer
Image
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.
Amanda Palmer
Image
Thank God my best friend's a therapist.
Amanda Palmer
Image
Crowdfunding as an idea itself isn't new - bands have been doing it since the dawn of time.
Amanda Palmer
Image
It feels like it is a daily work and an ongoing task to undo all of the f - - g programming that I have had all my life about who I am supposed to be and how I'm supposed to look and that I'm supposed to win. It's a daily deconstruction of all that bullshit.
Amanda Palmer
Image
You tour and you work hard and you take care of your fans and very real things lead to other real things. There's never been some fantastic fluke or break in my career, it has all been very slow and steady.
Amanda Palmer
Image
I am bigger on the inside But you have to come inside to see me
Amanda Palmer
Image
I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.
Amanda Palmer
Image
If your writing is good, if it resonates, if it connects the dots for anybody out there, the lovers will come, the haters will come, support will come — sometimes in the form of money, sometimes in the form of something less expected — and it balances.
Amanda Palmer
Image
When you trust people to help you, they often do.
Amanda Palmer
Image
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.
Amanda Palmer
Image
I maintain couchsurfing and crowdsurfing are basically the same thing — you're falling into the audience and you're trusting each other.
Amanda Palmer