Lou Reed
Lou Reed
Lewis Allan "Lou" Reedwas an American musician, singer, and songwriter. He was the guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of the Velvet Underground, and his solo career spanned five decades...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth2 March 1942
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
writing rock-and-roll rocks
All I want to do, is write rock and roll that you could listen to as you got older, and it wouldn't lose anything; it would be timeless, in the subject matter and the literacy of the lyrics.
memories book vegetables
They put the thing down your throat so you don't swallow your tongue, and they put electrodes on your head. That's what was recommended in Rockland State Hospital to discourage homosexual feelings. The effect is that you lose your memory and become a vegetable. You can't read a book because you get to page 17 and have to go right back to page one again.
buckets
I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.
important velvet-underground said
I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it.
song writing rocks
I've always believed that there's an amazing number of things you can do through a rock'n'roll song and that you can do serious writing in a rock song if you can somehow do it without losing the beat,
three jazz chords
If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.
kind kinds-of-love
And no kinds of love are better than others
life-is-short past thinking
I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.
reap
You're going to reap just what you sow
noise sound life-is
Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.
night thinking hands
When you think the night has seen your mind, That inside your twisted and unkind, Let me stand to show that you are blind. Please put down you hands cause I see you. I'll be you mirror.
beautiful running baby
Will none of the powers that be realize what Brian Wilson did with the chords. Deftly taking from all sources, old rock, Four Freshman, he got in his records a beautiful hybrid sound - Let Him Run Wild, Don't Worry Baby, I Get Around, Fun, Fun, Fun - 'and she had fun, fun, fun 'till her daddy took her T-bird away.'
should-have tolerance humans
Any human being should have a tolerance for anybody.
rooms i-can
I can create a vibe without saying anything, just by being in the room.