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I am a New Yorker, one I'm an artist, two I'm a woman, three.

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Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
Artist
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Laura Phillips Anderson
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History is an angel being blown backwards into the future
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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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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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My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.
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I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.
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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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I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
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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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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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It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.
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Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.
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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?
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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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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 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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My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.
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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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I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.
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I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.
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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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