Quote

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.

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
Trying
Failing
Time
Stay
Fine
Forget
Part
Hooked
Wanted
Forgetting
Firsts
Fail
First
Tradition

More quotes by Laurie Anderson

Image
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.
Laurie Anderson
Image
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.
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
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?
Laurie Anderson
Image
Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
Laurie Anderson
Image
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.
Laurie Anderson
Image
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.
Laurie Anderson
Image
Don't be afraid of anyone. Imagine your life if you're not afraid of anyone.
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
You can do great things with low-tech stuff.
Laurie Anderson
Image
I realized why movie scores are mostly strings, because it really frees your eyes to look around.
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
Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.
Laurie Anderson
Image
So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.
Laurie Anderson
Image
I think women are excellent social critics.
Laurie Anderson
Image
Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.
Laurie Anderson
Image
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!
Laurie Anderson
Image
The fewer expectations you have, the better.
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
History is an angel being blown backwards into the future
Laurie Anderson