Quotes By Laurie Anderson

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.

Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.

I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.

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

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.

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

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

I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.

The fewer expectations you have, the better.

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

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.

I think women are excellent social critics.

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.

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.

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.