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Type: Musician Quotes Category: American Musician Quotes Date of Birth: March 2, 1942 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Lou Reed Related Authors: Loretta Lynn Lenny Kravitz Elvis Presley Paul Simon Billy Joel Bob Dylan Little Richard Don Was |
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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