American - Musician | April 30, 1976 -
Neil Gaiman swooped into my life though another friend, Jason Webley, who knew we were fans of each other's work and introduced us via email. Neil and I, like me and Ben, just hit it off instantly.
Amanda Palmer
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Crowdfunding as an idea itself isn't new - bands have been doing it since the dawn of time.
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People had this idea about becoming rock stars packing stadiums instead of having the goal of becoming what musicians used to be in terms of how they would perform and connect people.
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If you want the world to pay for projects, you have to be able to display why you're worthy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.
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Meditation, especially for people who don't know very much about it and think it's 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.
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Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record.
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I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.
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There's a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows.
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