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Amanda Palmer
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: April 30
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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.
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When you trust people to help you, they often do.
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On many days, harder than the act of making the art itself is the act of sharing it and living in a culture that you know is built to tear you down.
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Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.
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There's a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows.
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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.
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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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If you're going to make work and you're going to write and you're going to put yourself out there and perform, you will be belittled, you will be insulted, you will be called a standard collection of names, you will be accused, and you just have to stand there and continue to work and find a way to not let those things poison you.
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I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.
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I think it's so important to have a practice, because the consciousness isn't perfection or enlightenment or any of that bullshit. The consciousness is, Oh, I'm walking down the street and I'm doing nothing.
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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'm still trying to express my truth, my place in the world, my belief.
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The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.
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The world needs actual excitement and emotion more than it needs cool people.
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You know, there are so many snarky angry critics out there who are just sort of looking to tear down whoever is getting talked about.
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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.
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The challenge is to just focus on what's actually happening, focus on the people who get it, and focus on the people who are listening.
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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.
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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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If I simply do what I've always done, it's never failed me.
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