American - Musician | June 5, 1947 -
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
Laurie Anderson
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The world is a strange and wonderful place.
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I hate zoos.
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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!
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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.
RealityYouKindWhyWillImage
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.
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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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The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.
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It's good to take a longer view and think, What would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever?
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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.
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I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual.
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As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.
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