Amanda Palmer Quotes - Page 4

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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.

  Amanda Palmer

  Powerful, Order, People

  "Amanda Palmer: Artist. Music Icon. Crowdfunding Legend. Disrupter. Feminist". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I never wanted to grow a thicker skin; I felt a real sense of pride in my thin skin, and in a weird way, I still do, because it's my thin skin that allows me to empathize with other people. It's the thing that allows me to create vulnerable art. It's the thing that allows me to create other feelings and make songs that actually grab people and touch people. I feel like I've spent my life fighting that thicker skin because I don't want to become an embittered asshole.

  Amanda Palmer

  Song, Art, Real

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• 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

  Jobs, Hatred, Negativity

  "Amanda Palmer: Artist. Music Icon. Crowdfunding Legend. Disrupter. Feminist". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If I were a guy, it would be, you know, just a different set of problems I have to carry along.

  Amanda Palmer

  Guy, Different, Would Be

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• I feel like if I were to play the game completely and just get myself in a giant bottle of nail polish and put myself on display, I would feel like I had somehow cosmically lost. I feel like I'm taking a bunch of the ingredients and using some of them but not all of them and shuffling around and making people think I'm doing my job.

  Amanda Palmer

  Jobs, Thinking, Games

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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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.

  Amanda Palmer

  Jobs, Intellectual, Stuff

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I nurture my close relationships like priceless lamps. That's part of why the job itself is inherently difficult and kind of a paradox, because you're out there touring and traveling and going a million miles a minute, but the things that are keeping you steady and stable can be really hard to nurture when you're going fast, and your relationships, which are the number one thing that help me through.

  Amanda Palmer

  Jobs, Numbers, Lamps

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• How you sound. How you look. Are you fat? Those are things that could be really irritating.

  Amanda Palmer

  Sound, Looks, Fats

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I remember being a teenager and being really impressed by "let's sit around and b*tch" people, and I have so little time for those people nowadays.

  Amanda Palmer

  Teenager, People, Being Real

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The cool thing too, as you get older, you get way better at identifying who's an ally and who isn't. And who has good, positive, "let's make all this sh*t better and let's try to have fun and fix sh*t" people as opposed to "let's sit around and b*tch and berate" people.

  Amanda Palmer

  Fun, People, Trying

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If you come across an American artist right now who has no political opinions or is afraid of talking politics, be very concerned.

  Amanda Palmer

  Artist, Political Opinions, Talking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You tour and you work hard and you take care of your fans and very real things lead to other real things. There's never been some fantastic fluke or break in my career, it has all been very slow and steady.

  Amanda Palmer

  Real, Hard Work, Care

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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.

  Amanda Palmer

  People, Records, Size

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I kind of rely on my artist friends to make my physical music worth buying by having them all come together and create beautiful artwork that everyone is gonna want to own to support my record.

  Amanda Palmer

  Beautiful, Artist, Support

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I feel like I've gotten to the point in my career and in my life where I can allow myself to write whatever comes into my head and not judge it too harshly.

  Amanda Palmer

  Writing, Careers, Judging

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think I've always felt as a band and as a musician and a music business person, I've always felt like an outsider, period.

  Amanda Palmer

  Thinking, Musician, Band

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I've always felt like an outsider across the board, since day one. The challenge has been to simply not pay attention to my outsider or insider status and just do the work and play the shows and connect with the people. And not even bother to play this game of keeping score, which is what destroys you.

  Amanda Palmer

  Games, Play, People

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We are human and our nature is to air...

  Amanda Palmer

  Air, Humans

  "Amanda Palmer: Artist. Music Icon. Crowdfunding Legend. Disrupter. Feminist". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• What I have found is, so much of that is like a Chinese finger trap: the more you play to the dark, the more you will get trapped in the dark, and if you just play to the light and focus on the people that don't misunderstand you and focus on the audience that does celebrate you and focus on the people who aren't trying to tear you down, all that other stuff eventually erases itself because it has nothing to feed on.

  Amanda Palmer

  Dark, Light, Play

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• The key is to just focus on the spots where the love is real, because you can just drive yourself crazy focusing on the negativity, focusing on the relationships that are irreparable and just aren't going to work, trying to convince the haters that you are indeed lovable. So much of that is wasted energy.

  Amanda Palmer

  Crazy, Real, Love Is

  "Amanda Palmer: Artist. Music Icon. Crowdfunding Legend. Disrupter. Feminist". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Men find powerful women so threatening, and finding a partner was starting to look laughable, because I would be really attracted to guys and they would just be so threatened and I didn't like feeling threatening, I didn't want to feel threatened, I didn't want to feel like I was towering over anybody.

  Amanda Palmer

  Powerful, Men, Guy

  "Amanda Palmer: Artist. Music Icon. Crowdfunding Legend. Disrupter. Feminist". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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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.

  Amanda Palmer

  One Direction, Guy, Feminism

  "Amanda Palmer: Artist. Music Icon. Crowdfunding Legend. Disrupter. Feminist". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think you can't have this discussion and you can't have a discussion about feminism and the consciousness of the world without having a discussion about what has happened to men lately. They're holding the other side of the bag.

  Amanda Palmer

  Men, Thinking, Feminism

  "Amanda Palmer: Artist. Music Icon. Crowdfunding Legend. Disrupter. Feminist". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think a good role model has to be sexy. Real, empowered, self-possessed women are sexy. When you're really in control of your choices, your mood, your body, and your opinions, people find you sexy.

  Amanda Palmer

  Sexy, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• There's really no honor in proving that you can carry the entire load on your own shoulders. Andit's lonely.

  Amanda Palmer

  Lonely, Honor, Shoulders

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