"If you're a young artist, wondering what to call yourself, consider 'multimedia artist.' It's so vague. Then, no one can say, 'Hey, how come you're a jazz person, and you're making a pop opera?"

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Source : "Laurie Anderson on scuplting sounds with Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel and her unique duet machine", daily.redbullmusicacademy.com.

Laurie Anderson

#Artist Quotes #Jazz Quotes #Wonder Quotes

“Each man's death is fated from the beginning of time.”

Source : Frank Yerby (1967). “Goat song: a novel of ancient Greece”
“I did not feel - in President [J.F.] Kennedy's words - that we could win the war for [the government in Saigon]. When I sought the reason for the dedication shown by the enemy, it seemed to me that the leadership and charisma shown by Ho Chi Minh was a major part of the answer.”
“Life in freedom is not easy, and democracy is not perfect.”
“Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it.”
“Lifeâ€™s a journey that goes round and round and the end is closest to the beginning.”
“I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man.”
“I'M SAD, because another young life was lost from his family, the racial divide has widened, a community is in shambles, accusations, insensitivity hurt and hatred are boiling over, and we may never know the truth about what happened that day.”

Source : Benjamin Watson (2015). “Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.”, p.15, NavPress
“East India Company weren't an evil organization that went around deliberately oppressing people, but they were driven by profit, and how familiar is that now?”

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