Laurie Anderson Quotes - Page 3

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

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.

The audience creates its own personality, I've noticed, in the first five minutes. They will either be generous, funny, silly, withholding, academic, analytical, grudging. And I'm fascinated with how that gets constructed, because it happens right away.

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

I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.

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

When love is gone, there's always justice.

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

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.

A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production.

You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad.

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

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

Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them.

I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen.

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

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.

I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.

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

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.

I'm a real workaholic.

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

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.

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.

I always wonder when people have any kind of spiritual and meditative practice especially if it's one designed in part to help them cope with things that seem unmanageable and to cope with something like death, if they're able to maintain that practice and maintain the equanimity at the time of death whether it's, you know, that person's or that person's loved one.