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Laurie Anderson

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The world is a strange and wonderful place.


— Laurie Anderson


#strange #wonderful #wonderful place #world

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!


— Laurie Anderson


#force #gone #hi #justice #love

You can do bigger and bigger things. For what?


— Laurie Anderson


#things #you

You can do great things with low-tech stuff.


— Laurie Anderson


#great things #stuff #things #you

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.


— Laurie Anderson


#just #kind #once #reality #special

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.


— Laurie Anderson


#count #declare #had #hadn #hobby

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


— Laurie Anderson


#electricity #english #idea #life #like

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.


— Laurie Anderson


#besides #details #find #huge #kill






About Laurie Anderson

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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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