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I think women are excellent social critics.
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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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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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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Don't be afraid of anyone. Imagine your life if you're not afraid of anyone.
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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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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.
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Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
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Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.
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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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I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.
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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.
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I am a New Yorker, one I'm an artist, two I'm a woman, three.
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I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.
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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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Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.
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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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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 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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