110+ Amanda Palmer Quotes On Marriage, Relationships And Golf

Amanda Palmer is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and performance artist. She is most well-known for her solo career, as well as her work with the Dresden Dolls, Evelyn Evelyn, and her husband, author Neil Gaiman. Palmer is known for her unique style of combining cabaret, punk, and rock music with theatrical performances. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Amanda Palmer on love, life, marriage.

Top 10 Amanda Palmer Quotes

1. When we really see each other, we want to help each other.
2. In both the art and the business worlds, the difference between the amateurs and the professionals is simple: The professionals know they're winging it. The amateurs pretend they're not.
3. Collecting the dots. Then connecting them. And then sharing the connections with those around you. This is how a creative human works. Collecting, connecting, sharing.
4. 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.
5. Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.
6. In other words, let's give our young women the right weapons to fight with as they charge naked into battle, instead of ordering them to get back in the house and put some goddamn clothes on.
7. The world needs actual excitement and emotion more than it needs cool people.
8. You know what’s really cool? Wake up every morning, decide what you feel like doing, and do it.
9. When you're an artist, nobody ever tells you or hits you with the magic wand of legitimacy. You have to hit your own head with your own handmade wand. And you feel stupid doing it.
10. The perfect tools aren't going to help us if we can't face each other and give and receive fearlessly, but more important, to ask without shame.

Amanda Palmer Short Quotes

• I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.
• I get really fantastic results when I just get out of my own way.
• It’s not easy to ask… asking makes you vulnerable.
• I do what I want. I try to be nice to everybody. When I fail, I try to apologize.
• If I simply do what I've always done, it's never failed me.
• We are human and our nature is to air...
• If I were a guy, it would be, you know, just a different set of problems I have to carry along.
• I am bigger on the inside But you have to come inside to see me
• If you want the world to pay for projects, you have to be able to display why you're worthy.
• How you sound. How you look. Are you fat? Those are things that could be really irritating.

Amanda Palmer Quotes About Love

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

Eat the pain. Send it back into the void as love. — Amanda Palmer

If you love people enough, they will give you everything. — Amanda Palmer

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

Amanda Palmer Quotes About Life

The challenge in my life really is keeping the balance between feeling creatively energized and fulfilled without feeling overwhelmed and like Im in the middle of a battlefield. — Amanda Palmer

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

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

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

When you cannot joke about the darkness of life, that’s when the darkness takes over. — Amanda Palmer

It feels like it is a daily work and an ongoing task to undo all of the f - - g programming that I have had all my life about who I am supposed to be and how I'm supposed to look and that I'm supposed to win. It's a daily deconstruction of all that bullshit. — Amanda Palmer

I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any kind of process of, just, life. — Amanda Palmer

Amanda Palmer Famous Quotes And Sayings

I'm bisexual, but it's not the sort of thing I spent a lot of time thinking about. I've slept with girls; I've slept with guys, so I guess that's what they call it! I'm not anti trying to use language to simplify our lives. — Amanda Palmer

Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me. Asking with condescension says: I have the power over you. But asking for help with gratitude says: We have the power to help each other. — Amanda Palmer

I want to live in a world where Miley (or any female musician) can twerk wildly at 20, wear a full-cover floral hippie mumu at 37, show up at 47 in see-through latex, and pose semi-naked, like Keith & co, on the cover of Rolling Stone at 57 and be APPLAUDED for being so comfortable with her body. — Amanda Palmer

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

You're not going to be perfect, you're not going to stop berating yourself, you're not going to stop the comparisons, you're not going to stop the judgment, but you can become evermore mindful of it, and that has to be good enough. — Amanda Palmer

I think the thing you're seeing now with the music industry is that the people who have tight-knit communities are now able to really hold each other up because of the internet tools. And the really top-down pyramid scheme of major labels and typical superstars isn't sustainable anymore because the system has collapsed. — Amanda Palmer

The pattern's laid out on the bed With dozens of colors of thread But you've got the needle I guess that's the point in the end — Amanda Palmer

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

I maintain couchsurfing and crowdsurfing are basically the same thing — you're falling into the audience and you're trusting each other. — Amanda Palmer

There's a fundamental disconnection in society in the way we live, this way we live that we take so for granted, and we've become very separate from one another and we don't really take lot of time to realize that. And the math is overwhelming to the point of despair, but the answers could be so simple. — Amanda Palmer

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

I think the Internet really sussed things into perspective. Because twelve years ago, I could spend my days on writing and running my band and touring and making posters and practicing with my band and working on my vocals, but I didn't spend a large pie chart of my time sifting through criticism as well, and nowadays I do, and all female artists do, because to be able to promote your work, you need to live in those spaces. — Amanda Palmer

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 — Amanda Palmer

If we can repair things emotionally, a lot of other things would follow. — Amanda Palmer

I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame. — Amanda Palmer

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

There's a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows. — Amanda Palmer

Our nature is to desperately want to believe and to take what we believe is the quickest path there even against our better judgment. — Amanda Palmer

One of the best things about Kickstarter and crowdfunding and the collapse of the music business is a lot of artists like me have been forced to face our own weird mess about ourselves and what we thought it meant to become musicians. — Amanda Palmer

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

I think it's so important to have a practice, because the consciousness isn't perfection or enlightenment or any of that bullshit. The consciousness is, "Oh, I'm walking down the street and I'm doing nothing." — Amanda Palmer

Meditation, especially for people who dont know very much about it and think its this very hippy dippy thing, can really be powerful, terrifying even, as it lifts the rug up on your subconscious and the dust comes flying out. — Amanda Palmer

It's fine for people to say, "If you can't stand the heat and if you can't stand the criticism, then just don't use the Internet"; unfortunately, that is not an option. The Internet is where we make our living and where we make our work, especially if we're independents and we cannot afford to not engage, because that's where our business is driving from. It's just not an option. — Amanda Palmer

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

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

Take on the pain and wear it as a shirt. — Amanda Palmer

When you trust people to help you, they often do. — Amanda Palmer

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

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

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

Thank God my best friend's a therapist. — Amanda Palmer

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

I had a real come-to-Jesus a couple of years ago when I started to see the direct line between feminism and everything else - feminism and climate change, feminism and poverty, feminism and hunger - and it was almost like I was born again and started walking down the street and was like, "Oh, my God, there are women everywhere! They're just everywhere you look. There's women all over the place!" — Amanda Palmer

For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community — connectors and openers, not untouchable stars. — Amanda Palmer

I still get laughed at but it doesn't bother me, I'm just so glad to hear laughter around me. — Amanda Palmer

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

Nothing is crueller than children who come from good homes. — Amanda Palmer

Those who can ask without shame are viewing themselves in collaboration with-rather than in competition with-the world. — Amanda Palmer

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. — Amanda Palmer

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

When you connect with people, they want to help you. — Amanda Palmer

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

Nobody ever sees me. Thank you. — Amanda Palmer

Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable. — Amanda Palmer

Twitter fascinates me because it's real. It feels kind of unreal, but it makes very real things happen. — Amanda Palmer

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

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. — Amanda Palmer

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

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

I want to be happy. i want to make people happy. i do not need to be rich to do that. — Amanda Palmer

Everyone I know shares toothbrushes. Everyone I know sleeps on each other's floor. Everyone I know uses what they've got and shares what they've got. — Amanda Palmer

Crowdfunding as an idea itself isn't new - bands have been doing it since the dawn of time. — Amanda Palmer

How do we let people pay for music? — Amanda Palmer

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

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

I think one of the greatest gifts you can give to someone is just access to the possibility of freedom that you don't have to be totally depressed and enslaved by your own environment. — Amanda Palmer

While we're over here blocked up in our departments and locked up in our own judgments and dealing with our own crazy problems, they're over there dealing with equivalent problems. One of the things that I am so frightened by lately is that men are having just as difficult a time striking a balance as we are. — Amanda Palmer

I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it. — Amanda Palmer

On many days, harder than the act of making the art itself is the act of sharing it and living in a culture that you know is built to tear you down. — Amanda Palmer

It would nice to live in a world where art can just be art! — Amanda Palmer

We can only connect the dots we collect, which makes everything you write about you... your connections are the thread that you weave into the cloth that becomes the story that only you can tell. — Amanda Palmer

I think I've been addicted to openness since long before my rock career. I was terrible as a teenager. I used to go out of my way to make people uncomfortable with personal details. I was always fascinated by the idea that we have these weird, random boundaries between what we do and don't show. — Amanda Palmer

I firmly believe in music being as free as possible. Unlocked. Shared and spread. In order for artists to survive and create, their audiences need to step up and directly support them. — Amanda Palmer

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

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

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

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

I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment. — Amanda Palmer

Donald Trump is going to make punk rock great again. — Amanda Palmer

It is terrifying to people when women step up and start owning the story that they have not owned. And I'm seeing so much of this, and it is a seismic shift. — Amanda Palmer

I was just a very dark kid. My family was complicated. — Amanda Palmer

The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist — Amanda Palmer

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

Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record. — Amanda Palmer

There are so many people, so many artists, so many magazines, so many theater companies, so many people trying to raise money for so many things that it's easy to look around and just feel powerless or helpless, because even if you have some resources, you can't help everybody. — Amanda Palmer

There's something advantageous about being a woman in rock versus, say, a woman in chemistry or construction. There's definitely a built-in sexism across the board, but I think you're afforded a degree of freedom in rock because, historically, the rules have been flexible. — Amanda Palmer

I think people have been obsessed with the wrong question, which is how do we make people pay for music? What if we started asking, how do we let people pay for music? — Amanda Palmer

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

I don't try to make anybody outside happy. — Amanda Palmer

Life Lessons by Amanda Palmer

1. Amanda Palmer's work demonstrates the power of vulnerability and authenticity; it teaches us to be brave and honest in our art and to embrace our true selves.
2. Amanda Palmer's success also highlights the importance of connecting with your audience and creating meaningful relationships with them.
3. Finally, her work shows us the power of collaboration and community; she has worked with a variety of other artists and organizations to create something bigger than herself.