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I hate zoos.
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I hate zoos.
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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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.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
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Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
I’m not usually where I think I am. It’s kind of spooky.
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I’m not usually where I think I am. It’s kind of spooky.
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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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.
It’s just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.
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It’s just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.
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.
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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.
The best thing about the term ‘performance artist’ is that it includes just about everything you might want to do.
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The best thing about the term ‘performance artist’ is that it includes just about everything you might want to do.
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.”
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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.”
The problem with prototypes is they don’t always work.
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The problem with prototypes is they don’t always work.
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