Laurie Anderson quotes Born: 07/05/1947 Country: usa

• 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 for. (Laurie Anderson)
• People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret. (Laurie Anderson)
• 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. (Laurie Anderson)
• Something that has so much power must have life. Instruments have life. (Laurie Anderson)
• The fewer expectations you have, the better. (Laurie Anderson)
• 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. (Laurie Anderson)
• The problem with prototypes is they don't always work. (Laurie Anderson)
• The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage. (Laurie Anderson)
• The world is a strange and wonderful place. (Laurie Anderson)
• When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom! (Laurie Anderson)
• Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded. (Laurie Anderson)
• 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 assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something. (Laurie Anderson)
• You can do bigger and bigger things. For what? (Laurie Anderson)
• You can do great things with low-tech stuff. (Laurie Anderson)

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