Laurie Anderson QUOTES

1 " Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives. "

― Laurie Anderson

2 " History is an angel being blown backwards into the future "

― Laurie Anderson

3 " and there was a beautiful view but nobody could see cause everybody on the island was saying look at me "

― Laurie Anderson

4 " Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories. "

― Laurie Anderson

5 " And there was a beautiful view,
But nobody could see.
'Cause everyone in the Island was saiyng,
Look at me! Look at me! "

― Laurie Anderson

6 " Every book is an alchemical creation, and I'm thinking back to 1857 when Herman Melville arrived in Greece and saw the Parthenon for the first time sitting there like a great beached whale, its big white bones exposed to the winds. But how can this happen? How can a whale turn into a building? Or into a book? In what way can words be alive? "

― Laurie Anderson , Stories from the Nerve Bible: A Retrospective, 1972-1992

7 " Well it was one of those days
Larger than life
When your friends came to dinner
And they stayed the night
And then they cleaned out the refrigerator
And ate everything in sight
And then they stayed up in the livingroom
And cried all night
Strange angels
Singing just for me
Old stories
Haunting me
This is nothing
Like I thought it would be . . . . "

― Laurie Anderson

8 " When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman who’s broken, put her all into your arms. Cause we don’t know where we come from … we don’t know where we are. "

― Laurie Anderson

9 " You can dance.
You can make me laugh.
You've got x-ray eyes.

You know how to sing.
You're a diplomat.
You've got it all.
Everybody loves you.

You can charm the birds out of the sky, But I, I've got
one thing.

You always know just what to say
And when to go,
But I've got one thing.

You can see in the dark,
But I've got one thing:
I loved you better.

Last night I woke up,
Saw this angel.
He flew in my window.
And he said,
Girl, pretty proud of yourself, huh?" And I looked around and said,
Who me?"
And he said, "The higher you fly, the faster you fall."

He said, "Send it up.
Watch it rise.
See it fall,
Gravity's rainbow.
Send it up.
Watch it rise.
See it fall,
Gravity's Angel. "

― Laurie Anderson

10 " And there was a beutiful view
But nobody could see
Cause everybody on the island
Was saying Look at me! Look at me. "

― Laurie Anderson

11 " You know the reason I love the stars is because we can't hurt them: we can't burn them, we can't melt them , we can't make them overflow, we can't flood them or burn them up—so we keep reacing for them "

― Laurie Anderson

12 " 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

13 " I fell in love with the idea that the mysterious thing you look for your whole life will eventually eat you alive. (Explaining her attraction to Moby-Dick) "

― Laurie Anderson

14 " The expert is someone who carries malpractice insurance. "

― Laurie Anderson

15 " I believe that the purpose of death is the release of love. "

― Laurie Anderson

16 " Y había una hermosa vista, pero nadie la pudo ver, porque todos en la isla decían: ¡Mírenme! ¡Mírenme! "

― Laurie Anderson

17 " Your eyes. It's a day's worth of work to look into them. "

― Laurie Anderson

18 " My parents didn't raise me to be religious. The closest we come to worship is the Trinity of Visa, MasterCard, and American Express. "

― Laurie Anderson

19 " And you know the reason I really love the stars is that we cannot hurt them.

We can't burn them, or melt them, or make them overflow. We can't flood them, or blow them up, or turn them out.

But we are reaching for them.

We are reaching. "

― Laurie Anderson