Quote

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

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
Crank
Disciplined
Seldom
Songs
Song
Ideas
Enough
Many

More quotes by Amanda Palmer

Image
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.
Amanda Palmer
Image
I want to be happy. i want to make people happy. i do not need to be rich to do that.
Amanda Palmer
Image
Those who can ask without shame are viewing themselves in collaboration with-rather than in competition with-the world.
Amanda Palmer
Image
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.
Amanda Palmer
Image
Eat the pain. Send it back into the void as love.
Amanda Palmer
Image
When you're afraid of someone's judgment, you can't connect with them. You're too preoccupied with the task of impressing them.
Amanda Palmer
Image
The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.
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 we can repair things emotionally, a lot of other things would follow.
Amanda Palmer
Image
Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.
Amanda Palmer
Image
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.
Amanda Palmer
Image
When you cannot joke about the darkness of life, that’s when the darkness takes over.
Amanda Palmer
Image
Nothing is crueller than children who come from good homes.
Amanda Palmer
Image
Twitter fascinates me because it's real. It feels kind of unreal, but it makes very real things happen.
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
One thing about being a performer is you're not just doing an intellectual job behind a desk you're out there performing and being looked at, being assessed for really superficial stuff.
Amanda Palmer
Image
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.
Amanda Palmer
Image
The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist
Amanda Palmer
Image
You know what’s really cool? Wake up every morning, decide what you feel like doing, and do it.
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