The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
we only needed a few dozen at a time to sell at shows: five songs for $5.
Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
We did have a growing fanbase and a hardcore work ethic, though, and I figured that was decent enough collateral to guarantee a few personal loans. I made a short list of people, and then one by one, I asked them:
Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
It was about the value coming from the taker of the flower, the hearer of the song, the heart of the beholder. Being painted white and standing on a box, the crowdsurfing, the Kickstarter, ringing a stranger’s doorbell in the middle of the night: I no longer see these things as risk. I see them as acts of trust. I think the real risk is the choice
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I would try to make things as freely available as I could: I would encourage sharing, burning, torrenting, and downloading. But I would leave my hat out, I would ask, and I would work from a place of gratitude if people stepped up to help. I wanted it to be like the street.