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Laurie Anderson

"As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true."

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"As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true."

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"I started crying, because there's nothing like hearing that the artist who originally did the song likes your version."

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"The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist."

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"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."

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"I would hate to be a new artist or writer in town today. But somehow the cream continues to rise. If there's one who's great, he just jumps out of the pack like you can't believe."

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"It's something I've always loved doing. I'm not one of the artists who comes in and just does my bit. I'm there every second of every day. That's my hands-on situation."

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"But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist."

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"An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch."

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"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."
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"The fewer expectations you have, the better."
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"I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual."
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"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture."
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"The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage."
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"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."
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"I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work."
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"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."
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