Laurie Anderson Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The world is a strange and wonderful place.”
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“I think illusion is one of the most interesting things that I've found to think about. Just look at yesterday, and what you were doing, and how important it was, and how nonexistent it is now! How dreamlike it is! Same thing with tomorrow. So where are we living?”
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“When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman who’s broken, put her all into your arms. Cause we don’t know where we come from … we don’t know where we are.”
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“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.”
-- Laurie AndersonSource : The Believer Interview, www.believermag.com. January, 2012.
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“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.”
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“Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.”
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“History is an angel being blown backwards into the future”
-- Laurie AndersonSource : Song: The Dream Before
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“It's good to take a longer view and think, what would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever?”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.”
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“It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.”
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“I believe that the purpose of death is the release of love.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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?”
-- Laurie AndersonSource : "Laurie Anderson on scuplting sounds with Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel and her unique duet machine", daily.redbullmusicacademy.com.
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“Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.”
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“I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.”
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“Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.”
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“I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.”
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“My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.”
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“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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“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.”
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“I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA.”
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“As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.”
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“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.”
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“As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.”
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