Laurie Anderson Quotes

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

Not many people care what you do. They care about what you do as much as you care about what they do. Think about it. Just exactly that much. You are not the center of the universe.

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

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

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.

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

My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that.

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.

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

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.

Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.

It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.

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.

I realized why movie scores are mostly strings, because it really frees your eyes to look around.

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

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

Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.

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

When love is gone, there's always justice.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I don't care about being famous or having a lot of people go, "She's really good."

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.

And there was a beautiful view, But nobody could see.'Cause everyone in the Island was saiyng, Look at me! Look at me!

and there was a beautiful view but nobody could see cause everybody on the island was saying look at me

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.