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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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Amanda Palmer
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: April 30
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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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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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I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.
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It’s not easy to ask… asking makes you vulnerable.
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In other words, let's give our young women the right weapons to fight with as they charge naked into battle, instead of ordering them to get back in the house and put some goddamn clothes on.
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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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While we're over here blocked up in our departments and locked up in our own judgments and dealing with our own crazy problems, they're over there dealing with equivalent problems. One of the things that I am so frightened by lately is that men are having just as difficult a time striking a balance as we are.
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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.
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I get really fantastic results when I just get out of my own way.
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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.
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I'm a massive fan of David Lynch and 'Twin Peaks.'
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When we really see each other, we want to help each other.
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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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Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.
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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.
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I do what I want. I try to be nice to everybody. When I fail, I try to apologize.
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It is terrifying to people when women step up and start owning the story that they have not owned. And I'm seeing so much of this, and it is a seismic shift.
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I don't feel at home in New Orleans. I don't feel at home in Austin or L.A. And I just felt immediately at home in northern Australia.
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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.
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In both the art and the business worlds, the difference between the amateurs and the professionals is simple: The professionals know they're winging it. The amateurs pretend they're not.
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