Quotes By Laurie Anderson

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.