Laurie Anderson Quotes - Page 3

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• 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.

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• The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals.

  Laurie Anderson

  Hate, Broadway, Stuff

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• The audience creates its own personality, I've noticed, in the first five minutes. They will either be generous, funny, silly, withholding, academic, analytical, grudging. And I'm fascinated with how that gets constructed, because it happens right away.

  Laurie Anderson

  Silly, Personality, Firsts

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

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

  Laurie Anderson

  Islands, Views, Looks

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• 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.

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

  Laurie Anderson

  Artist, Two, Three

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• 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.

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

  Laurie Anderson

  Goal, Trying, Behavior

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• You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad.

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  Being Sad, Trying, Needs

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• 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.

  Laurie Anderson

  Artist, Reality, Style

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

  Laurie Anderson

  Book, Thinking, Kind

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• 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.

  Laurie Anderson

  Details, Wanted, Knows

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• 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

  Artist, Thinking, Capability

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• There are plenty of ways you can play the game of fighting and really seem to be fighting without going for the jugular.

  Laurie Anderson

  Fighting, Games, Play

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

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• 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.

  Laurie Anderson

  Reading, Symphony, Judging

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

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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.

  Laurie Anderson

  Trying, Firsts, Forget You

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

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• No single person who has ever lived will be able to tell you what happens. Period. Nobody's right and nobody's wrong.

  Laurie Anderson

  Able, Periods, Single Person

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

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

  Laurie Anderson

  People, Care, Being Famous

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

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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."

  Laurie Anderson

  Dream, People, Want

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

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• 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

  Reality, Special, Kind

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

  Laurie Anderson

  Taste, Excellent, Audience

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

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

  Laurie Anderson

  Dream, Writing, Epic

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• My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that.

  Laurie Anderson

  Fashion, Car, Trying

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• 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.

  Laurie Anderson

  Children, Book, Writing

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

  Laurie Anderson

  Thinking, People, Nasa

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