Laurie Anderson Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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!”

“A lot of the work in United States is highly critical of technology. I'm using 15,000 watts of power and 18 different pieces of electronic equipment to say that.”

“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.”