QUOTES by Lou Reed
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One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.
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I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.
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I've never been super confident about anything. The work is never as good as it could be.
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When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil Taylor song. I used to run around the Village following Ornette Coleman wherever he played.
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Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.
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Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.
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I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.
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I was a product of Andy Warhol's Factory. All I did was sit there and observe these incredibly talented and creative people who were continually making art, and it was impossible not to be affected by that.
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I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.
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The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music?
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I am very emotionally affected by sound. Sounds are the inexplicable... There is a sound you hear in your head, it's your nerves, or your blood running.
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But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.
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Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat.
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In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle.
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I don't know what goes on in the crowd. I've had them show up and throw beer cans at me. I caused riots in most of the major cities.
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I don't really think about what the subject of my next album will be. I just know that I'm going to make another album.
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I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.
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The first generation of CDs sounded terrible. Any chance to remaster would make the music sound better than what was already out there.
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For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.
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I have no control over the audience. I have no idea what they think. My heart's pure. I can't do anything. I really can't do anything. I don't know what goes on in the crowd.
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I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.
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I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.
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I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.
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The myriad choices of his fate Set themselves out upon a plate For him to choose What had he to lose
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