Quotes By Laurie Anderson

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

I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.

I hate zoos.

My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-drawing to other people.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I'm a real workaholic.

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.

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

Something that has so much power must have life. Instruments have life.

You can do great things with low-tech stuff.

Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.

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

My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.

The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage.

As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.

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!

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.

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

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

You can do bigger and bigger things. For what?

The world is a strange and wonderful place.

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