Laurie Anderson Quotes
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.
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.
It's good to take a longer view and think, what would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever?
Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.
If you're a young artist, wondering what to call yourself, consider 'multimedia artist.' It's so vague. Then, no one can say, 'Hey, how come you're a jazz person, and you're making a pop opera?
I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.
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.
My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.
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.
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.
You know, for every dollar a man makes a woman makes 63 cents. Now, fifty years ago that was 62 cents. So, with that kind of luck, it’ll be the year 3,888 before we make a buck.
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.
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 so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.
A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
There are plenty of ways you can play the game of fighting and really seem to be fighting without going for the jugular.
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.
I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.
It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.
My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.
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!
When I was four, I was a kind of sky worshipper. I would look at the sky, and I wanted to evaporate into the sky - I loved the sky. I loved looking at the trees, just because they touched the sky.
The best thing about the term 'performance artist' is that it includes just about everything you might want to do.
And there was a beutiful view But nobody could see Cause everybody on the island Was saying Look at me! Look at me.
Last night, I had that dream again. I dreamt I had to take a test, in a Dairy Queen, on another planet.
I know a lot of people who have weird specialties that are not taught in schools; they're things that you learn in life.
I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual.
When you follow your thoughts and watch them attach to certain things, it makes certain things real and other things unreal, and you realize that this is all created by your mind.
I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen.
I didn't really understand that Vipassana is a relatively new form of Buddhism that was based on the storage of pain. So the idea is that every time you don't scream, that's your Buddhist side.
