You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad. — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget. — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
I wanted to stay hooked because it was the first time I've been part of the tradition where forgetting was just fine.… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
. . . I wrote a letter to Thomas Pynchon asking, Can I have your permission to try to make an [adaptation]… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
I always feel like if someone has stage fright, I really try and say, "Listen, these people want you to succeed, they… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex. — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view. — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
The best thing about the term 'performance artist' is that it includes just about everything you might want to do. — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
If I'm confused, I just spend some time looking at the sky and falling into it. It's not a meditation that anyone taught me,… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA. — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
And there was a beutiful view But nobody could see Cause everybody on the island Was saying Look at me! Look at me. — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen. — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
Dogs don't just like us, they love us, and they admire us. The big reason they admire us is we invented cars. They're like,… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better. — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
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… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
Something that has so much power must have life. Instruments have life. — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
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