Laurie Anderson
Laurie Anderson
Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson is an American avant-garde artist, composer, musician and film director whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects. Initially trained in violin and sculpting, Anderson pursued a variety of performance art projects in New York during the 1970s, making particular use of language, technology, and visual imagery. She became widely more known outside the art world in 1981 when her single "O Superman" reached number two on the UK pop charts. She also starred...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth5 June 1947
CityGlen Ellyn, IL
CountryUnited States of America
I genuinely have never been in an audience where most people want that person to fail. I've never been in an audience like that, and I've never seen it as a performer. Only in my dreams, in which case they are always throwing tomatoes and going, "This is the most boring thing I've ever seen."
It's a little hard to speak when you're not supposed to move.
I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.
I realized why movie scores are mostly strings, because it really frees your eyes to look around.
The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.
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.
being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.
I don't care about being famous or having a lot of people go, "She's really good."
The main thing that attracts me to Buddhism is probably what attracts every artist to being an artist - that it's a godlike thing. You are the ultimate authority. There is no other ultimate authority.
The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.
No single person who has ever lived will be able to tell you what happens. Period. Nobody's right and nobody's wrong.
I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.
I'm not usually where I think I am. It's kind of spooky.
I think women are excellent social critics.