Quotes by Amanda Palmer

About Amanda Palmer:

Amanda MacKinnon Gaiman Palmer is an American singer-songwriter who first rose to prominence as the lead singer, pianist, and lyricist/composer of the duo The Dresden Dolls. She has had a successful solo career, is also one-half of the duo Evelyn Evelyn, and is the lead singer and songwriter of Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra.
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I've always been a creative workaholic. I have never had a period of my life where I didn't have at least half a dozen projects going on at once.

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The challenge in my life really is keeping the balance between feeling creatively energized and fulfilled without feeling overwhelmed and like I'm in the middle of a battlefield.

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Neil Gaiman swooped into my life though another friend, Jason Webley, who knew we were fans of each other's work and introduced us via email. Neil and I, like me and Ben, just hit it off instantly.

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Crowdfunding as an idea itself isn't new - bands have been doing it since the dawn of time.

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I suppose I'm happy to sell my time and energy, but I'm not happy to sell my initial creative time.

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There's no blueprint; getting married doesn't make you boring, having kids doesn't make you boring, having money doesn't necessarily have to make you boring.

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In some way, my fundamental feeling about music is that it's impossible to put a price tag on it. Human beings made music before they made a lot of other things, including tools.

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I see everybody arguing about what the value of music should be instead of what I think the bigger conversation is, which is that music has value, it's subjective and we're moving to a new era where the audience is taking more responsibility for supp...

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You get the feeling that on a lot of days the audience for most music would kind of rather not be faced with the artist, especially because we've been educated to think that the artist are these special creatures are otherwordly and aren't like us.

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I have used Twitter for so many things, from places to stay, places to go, things to do, things I need, medical advice, you name it. Especially when I'm on tour, it really feels like I'm being taken care of by half a million people. It is like having...

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I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.

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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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My number-one goal is to never feel like I'm strictly defining myself. The minute I feel like I'm doing that as anything - as theatrical, as feminist, as songwriter - I feel like the minute I name it, I'm stuck in a box.

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People had this idea about becoming rock stars packing stadiums instead of having the goal of becoming what musicians used to be in terms of how they would perform and connect people.

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If you want the world to pay for projects, you have to be able to display why you're worthy.

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Meditation, especially for people who don't know very much about it and think it's this very hippy dippy thing, can really be powerful, terrifying even, as it lifts the rug up on your subconscious and the dust comes flying out.

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

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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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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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Twitter fascinates me because it's real. It feels kind of unreal, but it makes very real things happen.

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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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Author Bio

  • NameAmanda Palmer
  • DescriptionAmerican punk-cabaret musician in the Dresden Dolls
  • BornApril 30, 1976
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger; Street Artist; Composer; Pianist; Musician; Playwright; Blogger