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

“Almost every important human encounter boils down to the act, and the art, of asking.”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“It’s hard to work on an assembly line of broken hearts Not supposed to fix them, only strip and sell the parts”
― Amanda Palmer, El arte de pedir: Lo que he aprendido sobre dar, aceptar y no sufrir

“We all got used to living in the cloud of unknowing.”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“American culture in particular has instilled in us the bizarre notion that to ask for help amounts to an admission of failure. But some of the most powerful, successful, admired people in the world seem, to me, to have something in common: they ask constantly, creatively, compassionately, and gracefully.”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“TRYING TO CONTROL THE DANCE!”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“American culture in particular has instilled in us the bizarre notion that to ask for help amounts to an admission of failure.”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“They all told me I had a fear of intimacy, but I vehemently disagreed; I craved intimacy like a crack addict.”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“When artists work well, they connect people to themselves, and they stitch people to one another, through this shared experience of discovering a connection that wasn’t visible before.”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“You know, I didn’t ask for the money just so I could stay home with Anthony, I said, pulling out of our hug and looking at him. I think I thought that, then. But I don’t think that now. What do you think now? I think I asked…because I trust you enough to let you help me. I mean it. I love you, he said.”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“Other bands pissed off clubs because they would trash the dressing room and steal liquor from the stockroom. We pissed off clubs because the half-naked marching bad outside the venue would elicit noise complaints, or because someone would leave a glittery cage of trained mynah birds in the hallway, thus blocking the barbacks' path to the ice machine.”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“the opportunity, some small consistent portion of the population will happily pay for art.”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“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