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I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.
Amanda Palmer
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Amanda Palmer
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: April 30
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If we can repair things emotionally, a lot of other things would follow.
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I think the thing you're seeing now with the music industry is that the people who have tight-knit communities are now able to really hold each other up because of the internet tools. And the really top-down pyramid scheme of major labels and typical superstars isn't sustainable anymore because the system has collapsed.
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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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Our nature is to desperately want to believe and to take what we believe is the quickest path there even against our better judgment.
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I make the music that I want to make and make the show that I want to make. If you like it, you come. If you don't like it, you don't have to.
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The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist
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There's a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows.
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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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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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Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record.
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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 you can't have this discussion and you can't have a discussion about feminism and the consciousness of the world without having a discussion about what has happened to men lately. They're holding the other side of the bag.
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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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Thank God my best friend's a therapist.
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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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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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