Laurie Anderson Quotes
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Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
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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 wanted to impress people because I was kind of a kid who was lost in the crowd - was sort of my, feeling about childhood was being part of a big family.
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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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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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I believe that the purpose of death is the release of love.
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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.
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I realized why movie scores are mostly strings, because it really frees your eyes to look around.
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Books are the way the dead talk to the living.
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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 her all into your arms. Cause we don’t know where we come from … we don’t know where we are.
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I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.
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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 is doing that, every car company is doing that.
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It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.
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I kind of didn't believe the doctors when they came over and they said you're not going to be able to walk again. I'm sorry to tell you this. I thought who is this guy? I just was so impatient with the whole thing. I knew I was going to walk again. I knew that I was going to do that.
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I think women are excellent social critics.
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A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
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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 me.
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My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.
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You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad.
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It's a little hard to speak when you're not supposed to move.
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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 built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.
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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, which is both warm and destructive. We're especially drawn to the power. Many of the images of technology are about making us more powerful, extending what we can do. Unfortunately, 95 percent of this is hype, because I think we're powerful without it.
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People who were born alone are defined by feelings like "Who's gonna be with me when I die? Who will ever understand me? Will I always feel so alone? Maybe if I write a book..." and you forget that that doesn't help you so much.
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. . . I wrote a letter to Thomas Pynchon asking, Can I have your permission to try to make an adaptation of your book? And I had no idea that he would answer me, because he's pretty elusive. But he did send a letter back that said, Yes, you can do that - as long as the only instrument in the opera is a banjo. I thought, That's an interesting way of saying No.