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 kind of didn't believe the doctors when they came over and they said you're not going to be able to walk again. I'm sorry to tell you this. I thought who is this guy? I just was so impatient with the whole thing. I knew I was going to walk again. I knew that I was going to do that.
My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.
I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.
We want to dedicate our music tonight to the great opportunity that we all have to begin to truly understand the events of the past few days and to act upon them with courage and with compassion as we make our plans to live in a completely new world.
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.
You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad.
I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.
If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.
So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.
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.
Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.
I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen.
What happens when you're in a crash is you join a crash club, and you talk endlessly about your crash because you don't want to bore your friends with it. And they've heard about the crash so many times.
Books are the way the dead talk to the living.