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" 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. "

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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. "

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Doing

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" The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage. "

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

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

" 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. "

" When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom! "

Laurie Anderson

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" A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire. "

Laurie Anderson

Word

Electricity

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 women are excellent social critics. "

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

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

" As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true. "

Laurie Anderson

Artist

True

" I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work. "

" You can do bigger and bigger things. For what? "

" You can do great things with low-tech stuff. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm a real workaholic. "

Laurie Anderson

Workaholic

Real

" 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. "

" 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. "