The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help Quotes

“En La Era del Artista Social, la cuestión se plantea a cada paso: ¿qué hay de los artistas introvertidos o asociales que no tienen ningún deseo de abandonar La Buhardilla y entrar en el mercado? ¿Que ocurre con los cantantes que no quieren enviar tuits y los novelistas que no quieren llevar un blog? ¿Qué pasará con los Salingers solitarios del mundo?
El mercado es desordenado; es ruidoso y está lleno de enfermedades, carteristas, detractores y críticos. Para casi todos los artistas pasear su propia obra por los puestos de trueque puede ser desagradable.
Sin embargo, hay otra posibilidad, que es gritar desde la ventana.”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“No puedes pedir lo que no sabes que existe. No puedes pedir lo que no conoces. Ese era mi mundo. Era lo que conocía.”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“No es lo que uno le dice a la gente, importa más lo que uno hace con ellos. Y no es tan importante lo que uno hace con ellos como la forma en que una está con ellos.”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“Cuando te miran, tú puedes cerrar os ojos. Chupas energía, robas atención. Cuando te ven, tienes que tener los ojos abiertos, ya que ves y reconoces a tu testigo. Aceptas energía y generas energía. Creas luz.
Uno es exhibicionismo, mientras que el otro es conexión.
No todo el mundo quiere que lo miren.
Todo el mundo quiere que lo vean.”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“Si pido ayuda, no soy lo bastante.
Si pido ayuda, soy débil.
No es de extrañar que muchos ni nos molestemos en pedir.
Hace demasiado daño.”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“A veces la gente no está a la altura de la confianza que depositamos en ellos.
Cuando eso ocurre, la reacción correcta no es:
"¡Mierda! ¡Si es que no se puede confiar en nadie!"
La reacción correcta es:
"Hay gente que da pena."
Y seguir adelante.”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“And another local journalist wrote an op-ed wondering if this trend of empathy had gone too far.
Wondering if this trend of empathy had gone too far?
To erase the possibility of empathy is also to erase the possibility of understanding.”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“through. A professor had met his wife years before at a Dresden Dolls concert, and now she was in a coma following a car crash; he sent me a necklace of hers as a keepsake. These were “real” people with “real” jobs, making society work. And there were a lot of them. I would take in all these stories, and one by one, ten, a hundred, a thousand stories later…I had to believe it. I would hold these people in my arms and I would feel the whole synchronicity of life and death and music envelop us. And one day I turned around and it had just happened without my realizing it. I believed I was real. I had just finished a gig in Perth and was driving to a fan’s house, to crash with the Australian crew, when Neil called me from New York. He said, My dad just died. What? He died. My dad just died. He was in a business meeting, something happened with his heart, and he fell over, and he’s dead. Oh my god, Neil. What could I do? I was about as physically far away from him as I could possibly be. We had only been dating for about three months, but it was long enough to have started falling in love. Do you want me to come to you right now? I’ll get the first flight out, I offered. I’ll just get on a plane and come be with you. No, darling. He sounded like a zombie. Stay there. Finish your tour. Go to Tasmania. No. I’ll come. Really. I want to. No, don’t. I’m asking you”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“Make me famous, okay? he said, brightly. Maybe I’ll finally get some free coffee around here.”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“To erase the possibility of empathy is also to erase the possibility of art. Theater,”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“Effective crowdfunding is not about relying on the kindness of strangers, it’s about relying on the kindness of your crowd. There’s a difference.”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“It’s about finding your people, your listeners, your readers, and making art for and with them. Not for the masses, not for the critics, but for your ever-widening circle of friends. It”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“Using art. Collecting and connecting the dots of each other’s lives. All art, no matter what shape it is, has to come from somewhere. We can only connect the dots that we can collect.”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“We weren’t in the hit business, or anywhere near it; we were in the community-art-cult-poetry-family-love business. Even”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“My blog readership grew steadily as I started to dump more of my inner self onto the page. I”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“We were far more interested in serving our slowly growing, tight-knit community of weirdos than we were in topping the charts.”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“I’ve decided that I’m not going anywhere. Sorry. What? I’m not going anywhere, he repeated. I don’t know what you mean, Neil. I mean, he said, speaking more slowly, that I’m not. Going. Anywhere. Even if it takes years. I think I’ll stay right here. Like…here”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“Throughout my career, the fanbase has been like one big significant other to me, a thousand-headed friend with whom I have a real, committed partnership. I”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“Asking is, at its core, a collaboration.”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“We’ve been watching you, and we have evidence that you have NO IDEA WHAT YOU’RE DOING. You”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“And once I’d unloaded all my teenage pain on him, he knew the way to win my trust. He never told me what to do. Instead, he told me stories.”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“This impulse to connect the dots—and to share what you’ve connected—is the urge that makes you an artist. If”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“You’re an artist when you say you are. And you’re a good artist when you make somebody else experience or feel something deep or unexpected.”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“no “correct path” to becoming a real artist. You might think you’ll gain legitimacy by going to art school, getting published, getting signed to a record label. But it’s all bullshit, and it’s all in your head. You’re an artist when you say you are. And you’re a good artist when you make somebody else experience or feel something deep or unexpected.”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“It was essential to feel thankful for the few who stopped to watch or listen, instead of wasting energy on resenting the majority who passed me by.”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“Certain art hungers for context.”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“Before I saw your talk, I always thought of street performers as beggars.”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“That night changed my life: I was finally experiencing, in person, the songs that had been the soundtrack of my life for the past few years, the lyric-images I'd memorized after hours of headphone-listening on walks to school, the words that had been direct-deposited into my heart though the channel of my ears---I was hearing them here, now, in a moment that would never exist again.”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“To erase the possibility of empathy is to erase the possibility of understanding”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“People can understand a price tag no matter what it's stuck on. But they couldn't understand the messier exchange of asking and giving: the gift that stays in motion.”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help