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I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.
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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Don't be afraid of anyone. Imagine your life if you're not afraid of anyone.
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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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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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Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.
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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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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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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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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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My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.
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A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
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I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.
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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.
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Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
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Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.
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Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.
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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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I wanted to stay hooked because it was the first time I've been part of the tradition where forgetting was just fine. You do it, you try, you forget, you fail.
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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 think women are excellent social critics.
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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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