39 Quotes by Laurie Anderson
- People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.
- People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for.
- Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
- One of the things I learned from working on the Olympics was, the world does not need another big multimedia show.
- My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that.
- It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.
- The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage.
- My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.
- The fewer expectations you have, the better.
- The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.
- You can do great things with low-tech stuff.
- Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
- Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.
- Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded.
- The world is a strange and wonderful place.
- It's good to take a longer view and think, What would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever?
- You can do bigger and bigger things. For what?
- When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!
- A lot of the work in United States is highly critical of technology. I'm using 15,000 watts of power and 18 different pieces of electronic equipment to say that.
- If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.
- I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.
- At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.
- As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.
- A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production.
- I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words.
- I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.
- I just sort of wish people would dance differently. It reminds me of teenage sex.
- I'm not usually where I think I am. It's kind of spooky.
- I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.
- As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.
- I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.
- I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual.
- I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.
- I'm a real workaholic.
- I think women are excellent social critics.
- I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen.
- I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA.
- I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.
- I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.
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