“Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.” PeopleWantFreedomScaryScary Things Author:Laurie Anderson
“The best thing about the term 'performance artist' is that it includes just about everything you might want to do.” WantMightArtistTermPerformancesBest Things Author:Laurie Anderson
“I always feel like if someone has stage fright, I really try and say, "Listen, these people want you to succeed, they want to have a good evening. They want to see something really great. They don't want to see something crappy. They don't. They want to be at something really special."” PeopleIfsWantFeelsTryingSpecialStageSucceedEveningReally GreatFrightStage FrightGood Evening Author:Laurie Anderson
“I genuinely have never been in an audience where most people want that person to fail. I've never been in an audience like that, and I've never seen it as a performer. Only in my dreams, in which case they are always throwing tomatoes and going, "This is the most boring thing I've ever seen."” PeopleWantPersonsDreamCasesAudienceFailingBoringPerformersThrowingTomatoesBoring Things Author:Laurie Anderson
“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.” WantHappensHeardClubsBoresCrash Author:Laurie Anderson
“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.” WorldWantPastOpportunityCompassionCouragePlansEventsTonightNew WorldGreat Opportunity Author:Laurie Anderson
“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.” ThinkingWayWantShouldMeanDoeArtTeachOur LivesCenturyArt IsAssumingWay Of Thinking19th Century Author:Laurie Anderson
