Laurie Anderson > Quotes

“The day before he died, we were out swimming in the pool. Looking at the trees. And he was just floating and saying, ‘You know, I am just so susceptible to beauty.’ And I think of that every day. Every day. How to open yourself to the world. And really appreciate it.”
― Laurie Anderson

“Los perros ven todo verde y azul, su visión es muy borrosa y se combina con su olfato, cosa difícil de imaginar para los humanos, ya que, desde que empezamos a caminar erguidos, lejos del suelo, perdimos casi toda nuestra capacidad para orientarnos a través del olfato.”
― Laurie Anderson, El corazón de un perro

“They look like us.
They act like us.
They are not us.
Remember us.”
― Laurie Anderson

“There was an old married couple and they had
always hated each other. Never been able to stand the sight of each other really.
And when they were in their nineties they finally got divorced and people said: Why did you wait so long? Why didn't you do this a whole lot earlier?

And they said: Well, we wanted to wait until the children died.”
― Laurie Anderson

“Oh, another day, another dime. Another day in America.
Another day, another dollar. Another day in America.
And oh my brothers and oh my long lost sisters.
How do we begin again? How do we begin?”
― Laurie Anderson

“Hey! Pal! How do I get to town from
here?
And he ssid: Well, just take a right
where they're gonna build that new
shopping mall,
go straight past where they're gonna
put in the freeway,
take a left at what's gonna be the new
sports center,
and keep going until you hit the place
where they´re thiinking of
building that drive-in bank. You can't
miss it.
And I said: This must be the place.”
― Laurie Anderson , United States Reprint edition by Anderson, Laurie (1984) Paperback

“Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from one generation to the next. Books save lives.”
― Laurie Anderson

“So when you see a man who’s broken
Pick him up and carry him.
And when you see a woman who’s broken
Put her all into your arms
‘Cause we don’t know where we come from.
We don’t know what we are.”
― Laurie Anderson

“Como dijo Kierkegaard: "La vida sólo se puede entender hacia atrás; pero se debe vivir
hacia adelante".”
― Laurie Anderson

“Tourists take pictures to prove they were there. Filmmakers make movies because they were never there.”
― Laurie Anderson

“It was like the Dutch Astronaut I met who had a theory about technology. His take was that technology is actually a new kind of parasite that began to develop consciousness about 100 years ago and which, like all parasites, is gradually taking over its host, strangling the life out of it.”
― Laurie Anderson

“It’s like that door you find one day,
way at the back of your closet.
And then you go into the closet
and turn the knob and open it.
And outside there it is:
the immense Caribbean.

And you can’t believe it.
You’ve lived here for so
long and you never knew
that all this was right here
the whole time.”
― Laurie Anderson

“Hey! Pal! How do I get to town from
here?
And he said: Well, just take a right
where they're gonna build that new
shopping mall,
go straight past where they're gonna
put in the freeway,
take a left at what's gonna be the new
sports center,
and keep going until you hit the place
where they´re thinking of
building that drive-in bank. You can't
miss it.
And I said: This must be the place.”
― Laurie Anderson , United States Reprint edition by Anderson, Laurie (1984) Paperback