Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
Artist
Choreographer
Composer
Film Director
Inventor
Musician
Performance Artist
Photographer
Poet
Singer
Television Producer
Violinist
Chicago
Illinois
Laura Phillips Anderson
Special
Reality
Kind
Things
Decode
Translate
Image
More quotes by Laurie Anderson
If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.
Laurie Anderson
So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.
Laurie Anderson
I am a New Yorker, one I'm an artist, two I'm a woman, three.
Laurie Anderson
All of nature talks to me - if I could just figure out what it's saying - trees are swinging in the breeze. They're talking to me. Insects are rubbing their legs together. They're all talking. They're talking to me.
Laurie Anderson
I'm a real workaholic.
Laurie Anderson
I know a lot of people who have weird specialties that are not taught in schools they're things that you learn in life.
Laurie Anderson
It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.
Laurie Anderson
My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.
Laurie Anderson
A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
Laurie Anderson
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.
Laurie Anderson
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.
Laurie Anderson
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.
Laurie Anderson
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.
Laurie Anderson
Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
Laurie Anderson
Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.
Laurie Anderson
I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.
Laurie Anderson
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.
Laurie Anderson
The fewer expectations you have, the better.
Laurie Anderson
I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.
Laurie Anderson
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.
Laurie Anderson
