Laurie Anderson Quotes
Top 76 wise famous quotes and sayings by Laurie Anderson
Laurie Anderson Famous Quotes & Sayings
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No single person who has ever lived will be able to tell you what happens. Period. Nobody's right and nobody's wrong.
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.
Gut level is a good level to deal with life, and for me, I have to say that Buddhism makes sense for me because it's how I'm an artist.
There are plenty of ways you can play the game of fighting and really seem to be fighting without going for the jugular.
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.
One of the things I learned from working on the Olympics was, the world does not need another big multimedia show.
I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen.
Ninety percent of the people in the world end up with the wrong person. And that's what makes the jukebox spin.
Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.
I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual.
The best thing about the term 'performance artist' is that it includes just about everything you might want to do.
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.
It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.
And there was a beautiful view,
But nobody could see.
'Cause everyone in the Island was saiyng,
Look at me! Look at me!
But nobody could see.
'Cause everyone in the Island was saiyng,
Look at me! Look at me!
That's really a very different experience: You don't have to look to be understood. You're already understood.
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.
The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals.
And there was a beutiful view
But nobody could see
Cause everybody on the island
Was saying Look at me! Look at me.
But nobody could see
Cause everybody on the island
Was saying Look at me! Look at me.
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.
My parents didn't raise me to be religious. The closest we come to worship is the Trinity of Visa, MasterCard, and American Express.
Life goes by so fast. It's really - and a lot of times things happen so fast you don't know - how should I react.
It's good to take a longer view and think, What would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever?
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.
I know a lot of people who have weird specialties that are not taught in schools; they're things that you learn in life.
It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.
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!
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 don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.
The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage.
Last night, I had that dream again. I dreamt I had to take a test, in a Dairy Queen, on another planet.