Quotes By Laurie Anderson

One of the things I learned from working on the Olympics was, the world does not need another big multimedia show.

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.

I think women are excellent social critics.

You can do great things with low-tech stuff.

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.

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

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.

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.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

I hate zoos.

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

You can do bigger and bigger things. For what?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

The fewer expectations you have, the better.

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

People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.

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