Quote

I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.

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
Line
Lines
Alchemy
Happens
Cave
Caves
People
Letting
Draw
Draws
Mystery

More quotes by Amanda Palmer

Image
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.
Amanda Palmer
Image
I've watched so many women, from Kathleen Hanna all the way up to Taylor Swift, whether they're pop artists or rock stars or fine artists or writers, it is the subhistory of female artists that if you're going to make art, you're also going to have a full-time job of defending your right to make art.
Amanda Palmer
Image
We are human and our nature is to air...
Amanda Palmer
Image
Crowdfunding as an idea itself isn't new - bands have been doing it since the dawn of time.
Amanda Palmer
Image
Take on the pain and wear it as a shirt.
Amanda Palmer
Image
Comparing yourself to the people like you, comparing yourself to the people who aren't like you, looking at how many records you've sold, looking at the venue size you're selling out. None of that can even remotely measure how happy you are.
Amanda Palmer
Image
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.
Amanda Palmer
Image
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.
Amanda Palmer
Image
The perfect tools aren't going to help us if we can't face each other and give and receive fearlessly, but more important, to ask without shame.
Amanda Palmer
Image
If you want the world to pay for projects, you have to be able to display why you're worthy.
Amanda Palmer
Image
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.
Amanda Palmer
Image
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.
Amanda Palmer
Image
If I simply do what I've always done, it's never failed me.
Amanda Palmer
Image
Eat the pain. Send it back into the void as love.
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 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.
Amanda Palmer
Image
Nobody ever sees me. Thank you.
Amanda Palmer
Image
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.
Amanda Palmer
Image
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.
Amanda Palmer
Image
There's a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows.
Amanda Palmer