Best Laurie Anderson Quotes
- Ninety percent of the people in the world end up with the wrong person. And that's what makes the jukebox spin. End
- You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad. Ability
- I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring. Average
- We want to dedicate our music tonight to the great opportunity that we all have to begin to truly understand the events of the past… Act
- I'm not usually where I think I am. It's kind of spooky. Kind
- 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. Art
- I think women are excellent social critics. Critics
- It's good to take a longer view and think, what would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever? Good
- You can do great things with low-tech stuff. Great
- My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people. Conclusion
- 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… Corporate
- My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that,… Ask
- 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… Ago
- Some friends of mine work in an office. They were getting really nervous from their coffee breaks, so they started to have wig breaks. They… Break
- Computers are so deeply stupid. What bother me most when they talk about technology is they don't realize how much more exciting their minds are.… Boring
- . . . I wrote a letter to Thomas Pynchon asking, Can I have your permission to try to make an [adaptation] of your book?… Adaptation
- 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… Book
- 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… All
- I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA. Extremely
- My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said. Dream
- I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior. Avoid
- The world is a strange and wonderful place. Place
- 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… Art
- The problem with prototypes is they don't always work. Always Work
- 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. Bear