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
want do-whatever-you-want amount
There's only X amount of time. You can do whatever you want with that time. It's your time.
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,
rocks guitar play
My God is rock'n'roll. It's an obscure power that can change your life. The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.
clever lying expression
Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.
coffee blood evil
They tied his arms behind his back to teach him how to swim, they put blood in his coffee and milk in his gin.
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.
buckets
I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.
mother
You can't always trust your mother.
guitar bass beats
Nothing beats 2 guitars, drum and bass.
tired reality giving
Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor, that's what the Statue of Bigotry says. Your poor huddled masses, let's just club them to death, and get it over with.
song heart writing
I am bigger and stronger than ever. My Chen Taiji and health regimen has served me well all of these years, thanks to Master Ren Guang-yi. I look forward to being on stage performing, and writing more songs to connect with your hearts and spirits and the universe well into the future.
mean artist want
I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.
giving-up drinking giving
I tried to give up drugs by drinking.
sex interesting people
It's interesting to have a conglomeration of people that covers the strata from A to Z... There's a certain element of the audience that's intellectually oriented, into the lyrics... then there's another element of the audience that's into a sex trip. I'm into both of them.