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
They say that Heaven is like TV... a perfect little world, that doesn't really need you.
That's really a very different experience: You don't have to look to be understood. You're already understood.
Books are the way the dead talk to the living.
You know, I can see two tiny pictures of myself And there's one in each of your eyes. And they're doin' everything I do. Every time I light a cigarette, they light up theirs. I take a drink and I look in and they're drinkin' too. It's drivin' me crazy. It's drivin' me nuts.
Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.
People who were born alone are defined by feelings like "Who's gonna be with me when I die? Who will ever understand me? Will I always feel so alone? Maybe if I write a book..." and you forget that that doesn't help you so much.
Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.
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.
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.
My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.
I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.
I am a New Yorker, one; I'm an artist, two; I'm a woman, three.
When love is gone, there's always justice.
It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.