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Laurie Anderson

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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.


— Laurie Anderson


#ask #big #car #come #company

One of the things I learned from working on the Olympics was, the world does not need another big multimedia show.


— Laurie Anderson


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Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.


— Laurie Anderson


#exactly #like #much #now #only

People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for.


— Laurie Anderson


#days #despair #lot #people #personal

People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.


— Laurie Anderson


#beginning #end #get #just #only

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.


— Laurie Anderson


#art #full #into #joy #kind

Something that has so much power must have life. Instruments have life.


— Laurie Anderson


#life #much #must #power #something

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.


— Laurie Anderson


#bear #broadway #broadway musicals #even #hate

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


— Laurie Anderson


#problem #prototypes #work

The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage.


— Laurie Anderson


#drag #i #literally #onto #performance






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The PSAs were frequently shown between music videos on VH-1 in early 1990. In May/June 2010 Anderson curated the Vivid Sydney festival in Sydney Australia together with Lou Reed. Films
Dearreader: How to Turn a Book Into a Movie - 1974
System ohne Schatten/Closed Circuit - 1983
Home of the Brave: A Film by Laurie Anderson - 1986
What You Mean We? - 1987
Hotel Deutschland - 1992
The Rugrats Movie - 1998 (provided character voice)
Life on a String - 2002
Hidden Inside Mountains - 2006


Television
Saturday Night Live - musical guest 1986 [1]
Alive from Off Center - host 1987


Audiobooks
The Path to Tranquility by His Holiness the Dalai Lama - co-narrator 1999
The Body Artist by Don DeLillo - sole narrator 2001


Bibliography
United States (HarperCollins 1984) ISBN 0-06-091110-7
Stories from the Nerve Bible: A Twenty-Year Retrospective (HarperCollins 1994) ISBN 0-06-055355-3
Dal Vivo (Fondazione Prada 1999) ISBN 88-87029-10-5
Night Life (Edition 7L 2007) ISBN 3-86521-339-1.

Initially trained as a sculptor Anderson did her first performance-art piece in the late 1960s. She also starred in and directed the 1986 concert film Home of the Brave. Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson (born June 5 1947) is an American experimental performance artist composer and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles.

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