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Laurie Anderson is an American avant-garde artist, composer, and musician known for her innovative multimedia performances. Her work blends storytelling, technology, and experimental music, often exploring themes of language and identity. She continues to inspire audiences with her creative exploration and boundary-pushing artistry. Here are 54 of her quotes:

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

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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.

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If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.

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I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA.

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I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.

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I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.

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At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.

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A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.

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The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.

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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.

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It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.

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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.

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I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.

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I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.

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I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words.

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As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.

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I'm a real workaholic.

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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.

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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.

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They say that Heaven is like TV... a perfect little world, that doesn't really need you.

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You can do bigger and bigger things. For what?

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I hate zoos.

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