Words matter. These are the best Laurie Anderson Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I have written a lot about snakes. There’s something pretty primordial about 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 hate zoos.
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.
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 really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual.
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.
One of the things I learned from working on the Olympics was, the world does not need another big multimedia show.
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.
You can do bigger and bigger things. For what?
My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That’s probably the most pretentious thing I’ve said.
I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen.
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 so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist – I’m happy to see the work.
The fewer expectations you have, the better.
Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who’s looking for something so huge, something they’ve wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them.
I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA.
You can do great things with low-tech stuff.
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.
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.
I’m a real workaholic.
If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.
It’s good to take a longer view and think, What would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever?
The world is a strange and wonderful place.
I’m not usually where I think I am. It’s kind of spooky.
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.
The problem with prototypes is they don’t always 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.
Something that has so much power must have life. Instruments have life.
It’s just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.
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.
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.
