Quote

I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.

Laurie Anderson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Oriented
Avoid
Behavior
Goal
Trying

More quotes by Laurie Anderson

Image
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.
Laurie Anderson
Image
I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen.
Laurie Anderson
Image
I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual.
Laurie Anderson
Image
My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.
Laurie Anderson
Image
It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.
Laurie Anderson
Image
I'm a real workaholic.
Laurie Anderson
Image
I think illusion is one of the most interesting things that I've found to think about. Just look at yesterday, and what you were doing, and how important it was, and how nonexistent it is now! How dreamlike it is! Same thing with tomorrow. So where are we living?
Laurie Anderson
Image
There are plenty of ways you can play the game of fighting and really seem to be fighting without going for the jugular.
Laurie Anderson
Image
Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.
Laurie Anderson
Image
Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
Laurie Anderson
Image
I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
Laurie Anderson
Image
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.
Laurie Anderson
Image
When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman who’s broken, put her all into your arms. Cause we don’t know where we come from … we don’t know where we are.
Laurie Anderson
Image
I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.
Laurie Anderson
Image
I am a New Yorker, one I'm an artist, two I'm a woman, three.
Laurie Anderson
Image
The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.
Laurie Anderson
Image
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.
Laurie Anderson
Image
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.
Laurie Anderson
Image
You know, for every dollar a man makes a woman makes 63 cents. Now, fifty years ago that was 62 cents. So, with that kind of luck, it’ll be the year 3,888 before we make a buck.
Laurie Anderson
Image
What happens when you're in a crash is you join a crash club, and you talk endlessly about your crash because you don't want to bore your friends with it. And they've heard about the crash so many times.
Laurie Anderson