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
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.
rocks rock-n-roll
My God is rock'n'roll.
night journey college
Sometimes, you've got to be in a place. You're just another guy. You can just blend in. I live out in the wilds of nowhere, out in Jersey. Even there, there's sometimes problems. College students like journey out there and show up at 11 o'clock at night, on my porch, looking into the door not saying anything. My wife and I are sitting there; it's really creepy.
believe play people
You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it...I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it. That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say. ... I don't like overdubs, never liked them. ... The music business doesn't interest me anymore...Don't the people you're around shape the music, is that what you're saying? Everything does. ... 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.
care doe velvet-underground
I don't know anyone actually who does care what a critic says.
art i-can
I can concentrate on my art.
funny life music
Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.
people alcohol ego
Some people drink to unleash their libidos, and other people drink to prop up their egos.
grief adversity loss
There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.
nice real thinking
I'll tell ya, I'm a genuinely nice guy. I really am. A real nice guy. But I think I'm temperamental.
guitar bass beats
You can't beat 2 guitars, bass, and drums.
couple fun eye
It's fun to be in a small club and to be able to look somebody right in the eye and watch them just freak. Then it's fun to be in front of thousands of people and watch a couple of hundred freaking out of their minds.
art reality vanity
How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?