Amanda Palmer Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

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

“I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.”

“I'm a massive fan of David Lynch and 'Twin Peaks.'”

“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.”

“I was just a very dark kid. My family was complicated.”

“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 supporting artists at whatever level.”

“I'd actually say that every musician is a human being, and that not everybody likes being social. But with music, there are all these ingredients to the business that have nothing to do with writing songs or playing an instrument.”

“If you stuck me in a room and gave me art-making tools but told me no one would ever see the results, I don't think I'd have much desire to make art. What I do comes from a deep desire to be seen and to see others.”

“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.”