Laurie Anderson Quotes

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

Love, Mom, Justice

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.
Laurie Anderson

Art, Money, Made

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

I hate zoos.
Laurie Anderson

I think women are excellent social critics.
Laurie Anderson

Women, Social, Excellent

A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
Laurie Anderson

Life, Words, Idea

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.
Laurie Anderson

Life, Someone, Find

I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.
Laurie Anderson

Forget, Try, Head

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

End, Moon, Bases

My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-drawing to other people.
Laurie Anderson

Job, Leave, Images

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

End, Regret, Afraid

The fewer expectations you have, the better.
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

Reality, Special, Why

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.
Laurie Anderson

Keep, Easy, Less

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.
Laurie Anderson

Work, Power, Technology

As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.
Laurie Anderson

Someone, America, Lives

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

Beautiful, True, Artist

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.
Laurie Anderson

Graduation, Art, School

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.
Laurie Anderson

Children, Book, Words

I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.
Laurie Anderson

Pretty, Written, Snakes

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

Sex, Wish, Dance

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

Books, Hear, Visual

I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.
Laurie Anderson

Woman, Write, Artist

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

Work, Happy, Artist

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

Washington, Suspicious, Nasa

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Nationality: American

Born: June 5, 1947

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