Best 98 quotes of Laurie Anderson on MyQuotes

All of nature talks to me - if I could just figure out what it's saying - trees are swinging in the breeze. They're talking to me. Insects are rubbing their legs together. They're all talking. They're talking to me.

A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production.

A lot of the work in United States is highly critical of technology. I'm using 15,000 watts of power and 18 different pieces of electronic equipment to say that.

A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.

And there was a beutiful view But nobody could see Cause everybody on the island Was saying Look at me! Look at me.

Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.

Art is about paying attention.

As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.

At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.

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.

Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.

Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them.

Computers are so deeply stupid. What bother me most when they talk about technology is they don't realize how much more exciting their minds are. That machine is stupid. And boring. It does just a few things and then it'll crash. People think, 'I am on the Net, I am in touch with the world'. Wrong! The point is how we work, not how machines work.

Dogs don't just like us, they love us, and they admire us. The big reason they admire us is we invented cars. They're like, "Yes, we get to go somewhere!" Go somewhere faster, with their head out the window, and their ears, like, "Yes! Yes!

Don't be afraid of anyone. Imagine your life if you're not afraid of anyone.

Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.

Gut level is a good level to deal with life, and for me, I have to say that Buddhism makes sense for me because it's how I'm an artist.

History is an angel being blown backwards into the future

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.

I always wonder when people have any kind of spiritual and meditative practice especially if it's one designed in part to help them cope with things that seem unmanageable and to cope with something like death, if they're able to maintain that practice and maintain the equanimity at the time of death whether it's, you know, that person's or that person's loved one.

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

I believe that the purpose of death is the release of love.

I didn't really understand that Vipassana is a relatively new form of Buddhism that was based on the storage of pain. So the idea is that every time you don't scream, that's your Buddhist side.

I don't care about being famous or having a lot of people go, "She's really good.

I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.

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.

If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.

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?

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.

I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words.

I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.

I just sort of wish people would dance differently. It reminds me of teenage sex.

I kind of didn't believe the doctors when they came over and they said you're not going to be able to walk again. I'm sorry to tell you this. I thought who is this guy? I just was so impatient with the whole thing. I knew I was going to walk again. I knew that I was going to do that.

I know a lot of people who have weird specialties that are not taught in schools; they're things that you learn in life.

I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.

I'm a real workaholic.

I'm not usually where I think I am. It's kind of spooky.

I'm thrilled by the fact that I made something out of nothing. There it is! It wasn't there before: there it is - I made it! That's pretty powerful, and that's the power that Buddhists give to every single person.

I realized why movie scores are mostly strings, because it really frees your eyes to look around.

I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual.

I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.

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.

I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.

I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA.

I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen.

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?

I think women are excellent social critics.

It's a little hard to speak when you're not supposed to move.

It's good to take a longer view and think, what would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever?

It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.