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Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.
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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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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If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.
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The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.
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I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
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Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.
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Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.
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I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.
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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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Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.
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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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Audiences, whether they're seeing a film or a reading or whatever it is, a concert, they decide very quickly what kind of show it is, and then they judge it. They judge the rest of the thing by whether it conforms to their rules for what a good symphony orchestra would be.
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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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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 really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.
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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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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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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 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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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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