232 Quotes by Amanda Palmer

When you're afraid of someone's judgment, you can't connect with them. You're too preoccupied with the task of impressing them.

How do we let people pay for music?

If your writing is good, if it resonates, if it connects the dots for anybody out there, the lovers will come, the haters will come, support will come — sometimes in the form of money, sometimes in the form of something less expected — and it balances.

I've watched so many women, from Kathleen Hanna all the way up to Taylor Swift, whether they're pop artists or rock stars or fine artists or writers, it is the subhistory of female artists that if you're going to make art, you're also going to have a full-time job of defending your right to make art.

Take on the pain and wear it as a shirt.

I'm still trying to express my truth, my place in the world, my belief.

You are an artist when you make someone feel something deep and unexpected.

I suffer mornings most of all I feel so powerless and small By ten o'clock I'm back in bed Fighting the jury in my head

Life as it should be: all friends, all art, all music, all love, all the time.