Laurie Anderson Quotes
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The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.
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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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I didn't really understand that Vipassana is a relatively new form of Buddhism that was based on the storage of pain. So the idea is that every time you don't scream, that's your Buddhist side.
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My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.
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Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
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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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I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.
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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 their minds are. That machine is stupid. And boring. It does just a few things and then it'll crash. People think, 'I am on the Net, I am in touch with the world'. Wrong! The point is how we work, not how machines work.
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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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Life goes by so fast. It's really - and a lot of times things happen so fast you don't know - how should I react.
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I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen.
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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 jugular.
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I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.
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I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.
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Audiences, whether they're seeing a film or a reading or whatever it is, a concert, they decide very quickly what kind of show it is, and then they judge it. They judge the rest of the thing by whether it conforms to their rules for what a good symphony orchestra would be.
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The audience creates its own personality, I've noticed, in the first five minutes. They will either be generous, funny, silly, withholding, academic, analytical, grudging. And I'm fascinated with how that gets constructed, because it happens right away.
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No single person who has ever lived will be able to tell you what happens. Period. Nobody's right and nobody's wrong.
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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?
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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.
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They say that Heaven is like TV... a perfect little world, that doesn't really need you.
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I believe that the purpose of death is the release of love.
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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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I realized why movie scores are mostly strings, because it really frees your eyes to look around.