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
play trying joking-around
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.
philosophy mayonnaise soda
Life's like a mayonnaise soda.
mean tv-shows world
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.
love life family
These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.
three jazz chords
If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.
needs politics down-and
Does anyone need yet another politician caught with his pants down and money sticking in his hole?
cities drug age
I take drugs just because in the 20th century in a technological age living in the city there are certain drugs you have to take just to keep yourself normal like a caveman. Just to bring yourself up or down, but to attain equilibrium you need to take certain drugs. They don't getcha high even, they just getcha normal.
two velvet-underground pushing-it
One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.
rip writing people
It always bothers me to see people writing RIP when a person dies. It just feels so insincere and like a cop out. To me, RIP is the microwave dinner of posthumous honours.
beautiful fashion thinking
You do this because you like it, you think what you're making is beautiful. And if you think it's beautiful, maybe they think it's beautiful.
thinking everything-happens-for-a-reason velvet-underground
I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.
heart blow roof
You've gotta blow the roof off of your heart and let the universe in.
journey wild-side hiking
Take a walk on the wild side.
waiting firsts
First thing you learnis that you'vealways got to wait