Latest Amanda Palmer Quotes from Interviews

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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

• I feel an extraordinary amount of sympathy for anybody working at a major label right now because their lives are over.

  Amanda Palmer

  Extraordinary

  Source: pitchfork.com

• Donald Trump is going to make punk rock great again.

  Amanda Palmer

  Punk, Punk Rock

  Source: www.wbur.org

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  Amanda Palmer

  Blessed, Thinking, Cards

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• I think I can define my entire life, virtuosity and business philosophy down to the core fundamental that I absolutely hate being told what to do. But like any artist or any human being out there, I desperately want to be loved, and I spend my entire life trying to balance those two facts.

  Amanda Palmer

  Hate, Philosophy, Artist

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• I think being a woman in any business that's dominated by men, you have your garden variety pros and cons, where you learn how to focus and harness your various powers and weaknesses for better or for good.

  Amanda Palmer

  Men, Garden, Thinking

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• I have a handful of really close relationships in my life and I depend on those people heavily to carry me through and to help me stay steady.

  Amanda Palmer

  People, Helping, Help Me

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• 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

• 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.

• When I find myself having to share a meal with someone who simply wants to complain about the world, I almost feel myself wanting to crawl out of my skin and just sort of scurry away. But being able to pick up on that stuff and being able to easily identify the people walking towards the light instead of walking towards the darkness, that's a skill I'm very, very glad to see growing in myself.

  Amanda Palmer

  Light, Skills, People

• 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.

• 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.

  Amanda Palmer

  People, Personality, Battle

• I don't try to make anybody outside happy.

  Amanda Palmer

  Trying

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• I do what I want. I try to be nice to everybody. When I fail, I try to apologize.

  Amanda Palmer

  Nice, Trying, Want

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• 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.

  Amanda Palmer

  Want, You Like It, Shows

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• The minute I spend any energy defending myself, explaining myself, or in the worst case scenario, trying to please those who are criticizing me, I will, you know, just fall off a cliff.

  Amanda Palmer

  Fall, Worst Case Scenario, Trying

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• If I simply do what I've always done, it's never failed me.

  Amanda Palmer

  Done, Ifs

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• 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.

  Amanda Palmer

  People, Focus, Challenges

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• There's a part of me that is really, really happy with all of my success lately because of what it can get me and what it can buy me in the fact that my music will hopefully reach more people. But it also makes me a little bit miserable because the minute the spotlight is on you, people start flinging sh*t at you for whatever reason.

  Amanda Palmer

  People, Spotlight, Littles

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• 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.

  Amanda Palmer

  Tears, Critics, Knows

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.