Laurie Anderson

Gut level is a good level to deal with life, and for me, I have to say that Buddhism makes sense for…

— Laurie Anderson

Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life,…

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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…

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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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Life goes by so fast. It's really - and a lot of times things happen so fast you don't know - how…

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Ninety percent of the people in the world end up with the wrong person. And that's what makes the jukebox spin.

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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…

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People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's…

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The main thing that attracts me to Buddhism is probably what attracts every artist to being an artist - that it's a…

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I genuinely have never been in an audience where most people want that person to fail. I've never been in an audience…

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Computers are so deeply stupid. What bother me most when they talk about technology is they don't realize how much more exciting…

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Dogs don't just like us, they love us, and they admire us. The big reason they admire us is we invented cars.…

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You know the reason I love the stars is because we can't hurt them: we can't burn them, we can't melt them…

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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…

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“Every book is an alchemical creation, and I'm thinking back to 1857 when Herman Melville arrived in Greece and saw the Parthenon…

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What happens when you're in a crash is you join a crash club, and you talk endlessly about your crash because you…

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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…

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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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At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic…

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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…

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And there was a beutiful view But nobody could see Cause everybody on the island Was saying Look at me! Look at…

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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…

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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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That's really a very different experience: You don't have to look to be understood. You're already understood.

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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,…

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One of the things I learned from working on the Olympics was, the world does not need another big multimedia show.

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My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company…

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I wanted to stay hooked because it was the first time I've been part of the tradition where forgetting was just fine.…

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There are plenty of ways you can play the game of fighting and really seem to be fighting without going for the…

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“My parents didn't raise me to be religious. The closest we come to worship is the Trinity of Visa, MasterCard, and American…

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When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman whos broken, put…

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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…

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The best thing about the term 'performance artist' is that it includes just about everything you might want to do.

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Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about…

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You know, I can see two tiny pictures of myself And there's one in each of your eyes. And they're doin' everything…

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I'm thrilled by the fact that I made something out of nothing. There it is! It wasn't there before: there it is…

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Technology today is the campfire around which we tell our stories. There's this attraction to light and to this kind of power,…

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We want to dedicate our music tonight to the great opportunity that we all have to begin to truly understand the events…

— Laurie Anderson