Laurie Anderson Quotes
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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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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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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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I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA.
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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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Books are the way the dead talk to the living.
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So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.
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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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I believe that the purpose of death is the release of love.
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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 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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You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad.
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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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A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
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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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. . . 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.
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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 think women are excellent social critics.
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It's a little hard to speak when you're not supposed to move.
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If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.
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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 I do. Every time I light a cigarette, they light up theirs. I take a drink and I look in and they're drinkin' too. It's drivin' me crazy. It's drivin' me nuts.
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I don't care about being famous or having a lot of people go, "She's really good."
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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.