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
beautiful thinking creating
But it's not only: What are you going to do about touring, it's: What are you going to do with your life? Is there a point to what we do? I think there is. Making music, creating beautiful things. We have to be in love with the good and the beautiful. If we are not, then you're in a nihilistic state.
wall war passion
When the past makes you laugh and you can savor the magic that lets you survive your own war, you'll find that that fire is passion and there's a door up ahead - not a wall.
electricity planets
Electricity comes from other planets.
memories crazy artist
To wish for the crazy times one last time and freeze it in the memory of a camera is the least a great artist can do.
theater movie-theater
Looking through the viewfinder for me is like being in a movie theater. That's what I like about it.
kicks
Bodily changes take place, like the thing with the kick.
cry suburbs
Families that live out in the suburbs often make each other cry.
thinking morality compass
I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass.
philosophy
The only thing constantly changing is change, and change is always changing for the worse.
yes-you-can masters turns
With Master Ren, if I'd tell him I can't do that and he'd say, yes you can, and it turns out I very much can do it.
pain poetry lovers
Writhe and sway to music's pain searing with asides, caress death with a lover's touch for it shall be your bride.
revenge inward rage
This violent rage that turned inward cannot be helped by drink.
war people leaving
All the people have gone to war leaving no interrogator to mind.
revenge mind retribution
Jealousy endlessly eats through my mind, and jealously endlessly makes me be unkind.