Latest Laurie Anderson Quotes from Interviews

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• Life goes by so fast. It's really - and a lot of times things happen so fast you don't know - how should I react.

  Laurie Anderson

  Should, Know How, Happens

  "Laurie Anderson Reflects On Life And Loss In 'Heart Of A Dog'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 19, 2015.

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

  Laurie Anderson

  Imagine, Not Afraid, Ifs

  "Laurie Anderson Reflects On Life And Loss In 'Heart Of A Dog'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 19, 2015.

• 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.

  Laurie Anderson

  Buddhism, Artist, Levels

  Source: www.npr.org

• 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.

  Laurie Anderson

  Spiritual, Practice, People

  "Laurie Anderson Reflects On Life And Loss In 'Heart Of A Dog'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 19, 2015.

• So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.

  Laurie Anderson

  Happened

  "Laurie Anderson Reflects On Life And Loss In 'Heart Of A Dog'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 19, 2015.

• What happens when you're in a crash is you join a crash club, and you talk endlessly about your crash because you don't want to bore your friends with it. And they've heard about the crash so many times.

  Laurie Anderson

  Clubs, Want, Crash

  "Laurie Anderson Reflects On Life And Loss In 'Heart Of A Dog'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 19, 2015.

• 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.

  Laurie Anderson

  Sorry, Believe, Doctors

  "Laurie Anderson Reflects On Life And Loss In 'Heart Of A Dog'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 19, 2015.

• I wanted to impress people because I was kind of a kid who was lost in the crowd - was sort of my, feeling about childhood was being part of a big family.

  Laurie Anderson

  Kids, People, Childhood

  "Laurie Anderson Reflects On Life And Loss In 'Heart Of A Dog'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 19, 2015.

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

  Laurie Anderson

  Art, World, Engaged

  Interview with A. M. Homes, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

• It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.

  Laurie Anderson

  Country, Views, Order

  Interview with A.M. Homes, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

• The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.

  Laurie Anderson

  Gun, Rights, People

  Interview with A. M. Homes, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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

  Laurie Anderson

  Eye, Looks, Strings

  Interview with A. M. Homes, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

• 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!"

  Laurie Anderson

  Dog, Car, Ears

  Interview with A. M. Homes, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

• 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.

  Laurie Anderson

  Buddhist, Pain, Buddhism

  Interview with A. M. Homes, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

• 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

  Trying, Firsts, Forget You

  Interview with A. M. Homes, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

• I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.

  Laurie Anderson

  Believe, Heaven

  Interview with A. M. Homes, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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

  Laurie Anderson

  Moving, Littles, Speak

  Interview with A. M. Homes, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

• I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.

  Laurie Anderson

  Firsts

  Interview with A.M. Homes, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 03, 2015.

• 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

  Confused, Fall, Sky

  Source: www.believermag.com

• 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.

  Laurie Anderson

  Sky, Tree, Looks

  The Believer Interview, www.believermag.com. January, 2012.

• 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.

  Laurie Anderson

  Thinking, People, Care

  The Believer Interview, www.believermag.com. January, 2012.

• 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

  Book, Writing, People

  The Believer Interview, www.believermag.com. January, 2012.

• That's really a very different experience: You don't have to look to be understood. You're already understood.

  Laurie Anderson

  Different Experiences, Different, Looks

  The Believer Interview, www.believermag.com. January, 2012.

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

  Laurie Anderson

  Artist, God Complex, Godlike

  The Believer Interview, www.believermag.com. January, 2012.

• 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.

  Laurie Anderson

  Buddhist, Powerful, Giving

  The Believer Interview, www.believermag.com. January, 2012.