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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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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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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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It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.
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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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I am a New Yorker, one I'm an artist, two I'm a woman, three.
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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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The main thing that attracts me to Buddhism is probably what attracts every artist to being an artist - that it's a godlike thing. You are the ultimate authority. There is no other ultimate authority.
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I know a lot of people who have weird specialties that are not taught in schools they're things that you learn in life.
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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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Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.
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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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People who were born alone are defined by feelings like Who's gonna be with me when I die? Who will ever understand me? Will I always feel so alone? Maybe if I write a book... and you forget that that doesn't help you so much.
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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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My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.
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If I'm confused, I just spend some time looking at the sky and falling into it. It's not a meditation that anyone taught me, it's something I've done my whole life, and liked doing, and it made me feel like nothing.
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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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If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.
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If you're a young artist, wondering what to call yourself, consider 'multimedia artist.' It's so vague. Then, no one can say, 'Hey, how come you're a jazz person, and you're making a pop opera?
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My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.
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