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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
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Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
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Laura Phillips Anderson
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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.
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I realized why movie scores are mostly strings, because it really frees your eyes to look around.
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I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.
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I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual.
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My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.
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Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.
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I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.
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Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.
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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.
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Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.
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There are plenty of ways you can play the game of fighting and really seem to be fighting without going for the jugular.
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People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for.
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Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.
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I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
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Last night, I had that dream again. I dreamt I had to take a test, in a Dairy Queen, on another planet.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.
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I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.
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