Quotes from Laurie Anderson

Y había una hermosa vista, pero nadie la pudo ver, porque todos en la isla decían: ¡Mírenme! ¡Mírenme!

Your eyes. It's a day's worth of work to look into them.

My parents didn't raise me to be religious. The closest we come to worship is the Trinity of Visa, MasterCard, and American Express.

And you know the reason I really love the stars is that we cannot hurt them. We can't burn them, or melt them, or make them overflow. We can't flood them, or blow them up, or turn them out. But we are reaching for them. We are reaching.

Well it was one of those days Larger than life When your friends came to dinner And they stayed the night And then they cleaned out the refrigerator And ate everything in sight And then they stayed up in the livingroom And cried all night Strange angels Singing just for me Old stories Haunting me This is nothing Like I thought it would be . . . .

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.

It's good to take a longer view and think, What would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever?

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.

I just sort of wish people would dance differently. It reminds me of teenage sex.

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

The fewer expectations you have, the better.

The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.

Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.

I know a lot of people who have weird specialties that are not taught in schools; they're things that you learn in life.

I think women are excellent social critics.

You can do great things with low-tech stuff.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.