Episode 1419 - Laurie Anderson
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
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The Importance of Using Your Own Name
When I was a young artist, we weren't looking to make our names. But when your name becomes a handy label, it's weird. And that's the biggest difference for me in looking around at the world now. When I started doing records with Warner Brothers, they said, well, we need, you need a style. We need to like, you sort of like a branded thing. Now people do it; which part was a joke. The way he tried to use and that he used words could be shoved one way or another just by his facial expression. That was an autobiographical slap on him but he did want to know himself as much as he could articulate that.
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