Amanda Palmer quotes - page 2

Thank God my best friend's a therapist. (Amanda Palmer)
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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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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It makes me very sad when I find out that people who never hear our music think that we are really about image and not about substance.
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I really like Neil a whole, whole, whole lot, and I really do not want to marry Kevin Smith, even a little.
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The dress-up freaks are coming back, and it's wonderful to watch.
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Rock needs theater, rock is theater. We just go through different eras of guilty admission about this.
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I'm a massive fan of David Lynch and 'Twin Peaks.'
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There's something advantageous about being a woman in rock versus, say, a woman in chemistry or construction. There's definitely a built-in sexism across the board, but I think you're afforded a degree of freedom in rock because, historically, the rules have been flexible.
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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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Crowdfunding as an idea itself isn't new - bands have been doing it since the dawn of time. (Amanda Palmer)
I think one of the greatest gifts you can give to someone is just access to the possibility of freedom that you don't have to be totally depressed and enslaved by your own environment.
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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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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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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 write a lot, but it's not all fantastic. There's plenty of terrible crap. We work on a few things at a time, let some things fall away, make changes. We certainly have enough for the next album, which could take at least another year to come out.
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Rock needs theater, rock is theater. We just go through different eras of guilty admission about this. Having risen with The Dresden Dolls in the heyday of The Strokes and The White Stripes, everyone was looking at us as completely misfit theater dorks. But it's really encouraging to see a more theater-dork wave of bands like The Scissor Sisters, Antony & The Johnsons, CocoRosie, Patrick Wolf and even Arcade Fire and Decembrists becoming popular. The dress-up freaks are coming back, and it's wonderful to watch.
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