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Lou Reed Quotes

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Musician Quotes
Category:
American Musician Quotes
Date of Birth:
March 2, 1942
Nationality:
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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.
Lou Reed

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?
Lou Reed

I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it.
Lou Reed

I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.
Lou Reed

I can concentrate on my art.
Lou Reed

I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.
Lou Reed

I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.
Lou Reed

I don't know anyone actually who does care what a critic says.
Lou Reed

I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.
Lou Reed

I don't like overdubs, never liked them.
Lou Reed

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.
Lou Reed

I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.
Lou Reed

I love Ornette Coleman. I love Don Cherry. I love the way those guys play.
Lou Reed

I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.
Lou Reed

I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.
Lou Reed

I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.
Lou Reed

I tried to give up drugs by drinking.
Lou Reed

I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.
Lou Reed

I'm in this business for too long to be halfhearted about anything.
Lou Reed

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.
Lou Reed

I'm too old to do things by half.
Lou Reed

If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.
Lou Reed

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.
Lou Reed

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.
Lou Reed

Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.
Lou Reed

Music was what bothered me, what interested me.
Lou Reed

My God is rock'n'roll.
Lou Reed

One of my rules is: Never listen to your old stuff.
Lou Reed

Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat.
Lou Reed

Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful.
Lou Reed

Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right.
Lou Reed

Take a walk on the wild side.
Lou Reed

That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say.
Lou Reed

The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.
Lou Reed

The music business doesn't interest me anymore.
Lou Reed

There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.
Lou Reed

There's only X amount of time. You can do whatever you want with that time. It's your time.
Lou Reed

These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.
Lou Reed

When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment.
Lou Reed

You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it.
Lou Reed


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