232 Quotes by Amanda Palmer

The professionals know they’re winging it. The amateurs pretend they’re not.

Did I TED well? Am I fired?

Often it is our own sense that we are undeserving of help that has immobilized us.

You can’t ever give people what they want. But you can give them something else. You can give them empathy. You can give them understanding. And that’s a lot, and enough to give.

Sometimes it was like Neil was from an alien planet, where people never asked for or shared anything emotional without deeply apologizing first. He assured me that he was simply British. And that we Americans, with all of our loud oversharing and need for random hugs and free admissions to people we’ve just met of deep, traumatic childhood wounds looks just as alien to them.

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.

That’s the whole point, darling, he said. Writers make things up.

There’s a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows.

Giving away free content, for me, was about the value of the music becoming the connection itself.