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Lou Reed
American
Musician
About the author
Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat.
Lou Reed,
American
Musician
#Magic
#Night
#Energy
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,
American
Musician
#Sound
#Drugs
#Insanity
The music business doesn't interest me anymore.
Lou Reed,
American
Musician
#Music
#Interest
#Business
If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.
Lou Reed,
American
Musician
#Jazz
Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.
Lou Reed,
American
Musician
#Life
Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful.
Lou Reed,
American
Musician
#Night
Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right.
Lou Reed,
American
Musician
#Right
#Terror
Take a walk on the wild side.
Lou Reed,
American
Musician
The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.
Lou Reed,
American
Musician
#Play
#Religion
#Guitar
There's only X amount of time. You can do whatever you want with that time. It's your time.
Lou Reed,
American
Musician
#Want
#Time
When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment.
Lou Reed,
American
Musician
#Trying
You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it.
Lou Reed,
American
Musician
I'm too old to do things by half.
Lou Reed,
American
Musician
#Old
There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.
Lou Reed,
American
Musician
#Magic
#Loss
That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say.
Lou Reed,
American
Musician
These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.
Lou Reed,
American
Musician
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,
American
Musician
#Play
#Trying
I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it.
Lou Reed,
American
Musician
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,
American
Musician
#Right
#Now
#Thought
#Music
One of my rules is: Never listen to your old stuff.
Lou Reed,
American
Musician
#Old
#Rules
My God is rock'n'roll.
Lou Reed,
American
Musician
#God
Music was what bothered me, what interested me.
Lou Reed,
American
Musician
#Music
Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.
Lou Reed,
American
Musician
#Pretty
#Music
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,
American
Musician
#Night
#Doubt
I can concentrate on my art.
Lou Reed,
American
Musician
#Art
I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.
Lou Reed,
American
Musician
#Act
I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.
Lou Reed,
American
Musician
#Makeup
#Reality
I don't know anyone actually who does care what a critic says.
Lou Reed,
American
Musician
#Care
I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.
Lou Reed,
American
Musician
#Nostalgia
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,
American
Musician
#Will
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,
American
Musician
#Artist
I love Ornette Coleman. I love Don Cherry. I love the way those guys play.
Lou Reed,
American
Musician
#Love
#Play
I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.
Lou Reed,
American
Musician
#Art
#Artists
#Ego
I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.
Lou Reed,
American
Musician
#Life
#Past
#Future
I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.
Lou Reed,
American
Musician
#Reason
I tried to give up drugs by drinking.
Lou Reed,
American
Musician
#Drinking
#Drugs
I'm in this business for too long to be halfhearted about anything.
Lou Reed,
American
Musician
#Business
I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.
Lou Reed,
American
Musician
#Want
#Artist
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,
American
Musician
#Art
#Reality
#Artist
#Vanity
I don't like overdubs, never liked them.
Lou Reed,
American
Musician