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Lou Reed [1942-2013] American

Rank: 101
Musician

Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed was 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.

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Quote	Tags	Rank
I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.		101
One of my rules is: Never listen to your old stuff.		102
Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.		103
There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.		104
I love Ornette Coleman. I love Don Cherry. I love the way those guys play.		105
I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.	Art	106
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.		107
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.	Best, Music	108
I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.		109
I don't know anyone actually who does care what a critic says.		110
I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.		111
I wouldn't want to hear Beethoven without beautiful bass, the cellos, the tuba. It's very important. Hip-hop has thunderous bass. And so does Beethoven. If you don't have the bass, it's like being amputated. It's like you have no legs.		112
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.		113
I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.		114
One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.		115
How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?		116
My God is rock'n'roll.		117
These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.		118
It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print.		119
I'll tell ya, I'm a genuinely nice guy. I really am. A real nice guy. But I think I'm temperamental.		120
But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.		121
I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.		122
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.		123
Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat.		124
Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful.		125
When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment.		126
I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.		201
I tried to give up drugs by drinking.		202
I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it.		203
That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say.		204
There's only X amount of time. You can do whatever you want with that time. It's your time.		205
People think that I work out but it's all t'ai chi.		206
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.		207
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.		208
Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right.		209
The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.		210
Take a walk on the wild side.		211
You can't beat 2 guitars, bass, and drums.		212
The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music?		213
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.		214
You're a musician: You play. That's what you do.		215
I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.		216
You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums.		217
Meditation doesn't have to be complicated. What I do is about as simple as you can get. You could just count the beads, one, two, three, with your eyes closed or open, whatever makes you happy.		218
I've become completely well adjusted to being a cult figure.		219
I can create a vibe without saying anything, just by being in the room.		220
I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any attention at all. Sometimes it's me, or a composite of me and other people. Sometimes it's not me at all.		221
I've never been super confident about anything. The work is never as good as it could be.		222
Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has.		223
I can concentrate on my art.		224
I'm too old to do things by half.		225
The music business doesn't interest me anymore.		226
You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it.		301
If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.		302
I'm a humanist.		303
I don't mind a repetitive chorus; I mind repetitive verse. I mean, it's the same amount of space. Why would you have only three diamonds if you can have six?		304
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.		305
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.		306
I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.		307
I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.		308
I don't like overdubs, never liked them.		309
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.		310
I'm in this business for too long to be halfhearted about anything.		311
Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.		312
Music was what bothered me, what interested me.		313
The first generation of CDs sounded terrible. Any chance to remaster would make the music sound better than what was already out there.		314
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.		315
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.		316
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.		317
Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.		318

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