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Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
Artist
Choreographer
Composer
Film Director
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Musician
Performance Artist
Photographer
Poet
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Television Producer
Violinist
Chicago
Illinois
Laura Phillips Anderson
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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.
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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.
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So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.
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When I was four, I was a kind of sky worshipper. I would look at the sky, and I wanted to evaporate into the sky - I loved the sky. I loved looking at the trees, just because they touched the sky.
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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 trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.
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The fewer expectations you have, the better.
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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.
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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 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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Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.
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I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.
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We want to dedicate our music tonight to the great opportunity that we all have to begin to truly understand the events of the past few days and to act upon them with courage and with compassion as we make our plans to live in a completely new world.
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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 always feel like if someone has stage fright, I really try and say, Listen, these people want you to succeed, they want to have a good evening. They want to see something really great. They don't want to see something crappy. They don't. They want to be at something really special.
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You know the reason I love the stars is because we can't hurt them: we can't burn them, we can't melt them , we can't make them overflow, we can't flood them or burn them up—so we keep reacing for them
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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 job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.
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I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen.
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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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