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The world is a strange and wonderful place.
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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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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Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
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I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
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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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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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And there was a beutiful view But nobody could see Cause everybody on the island Was saying Look at me! Look at me.
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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.
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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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It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.
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Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.
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I am a New Yorker, one I'm an artist, two I'm a woman, three.
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Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.
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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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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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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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Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.
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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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I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.
Laurie Anderson
Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.
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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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