Laurie Anderson Quotes

I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA.

When you follow your thoughts and watch them attach to certain things, it makes certain things real and other things unreal, and you realize that this is all created by your mind.

I am a New Yorker, one; I'm an artist, two; I'm a woman, three.

I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual.

And there was a beutiful view But nobody could see Cause everybody on the island Was saying Look at me! Look at me.

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.

I genuinely have never been in an audience where most people want that person to fail. I've never been in an audience like that, and I've never seen it as a performer. Only in my dreams, in which case they are always throwing tomatoes and going, "This is the most boring thing I've ever seen."

I just sort of wish people would dance differently. It reminds me of teenage sex.

They say that Heaven is like TV... a perfect little world, that doesn't really need you.

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.

Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.

I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.

At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.

That's really a very different experience: You don't have to look to be understood. You're already understood.

No single person who has ever lived will be able to tell you what happens. Period. Nobody's right and nobody's wrong.

As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.

You know the reason I love the stars is because we can't hurt them: we can't burn them, we can't melt them , we can't make them overflow, we can't flood them or burn them up—so we keep reacing for them

I'm thrilled by the fact that I made something out of nothing. There it is! It wasn't there before: there it is - I made it! That's pretty powerful, and that's the power that Buddhists give to every single person.

Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.

My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.

I think women are excellent social critics.

I wanted to stay hooked because it was the first time I've been part of the tradition where forgetting was just fine. You do it, you try, you forget, you fail.

So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.

If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.

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.

The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.

The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.

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 of luck, it’ll be the year 3,888 before we make a buck.

I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.

You can do great things with low-tech stuff.

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.

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 few days and to act upon them with courage and with compassion as we make our plans to live in a completely new world.

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 tried on wigs for 15 minutes. They found this relaxing. So that's Wig Therapy.

I know a lot of people who have weird specialties that are not taught in schools; they're things that you learn in life.

Gut level is a good level to deal with life, and for me, I have to say that Buddhism makes sense for me because it's how I'm an artist.

There are plenty of ways you can play the game of fighting and really seem to be fighting without going for the jugular.

It's a little hard to speak when you're not supposed to move.

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.

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.

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.

I believe that the purpose of death is the release of love.

I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.

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.

Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.

I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.

Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.

I'm not usually where I think I am. It's kind of spooky.

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.