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
interest music-business
The music business doesn't interest me anymore.
night perfect magic
Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat.
nostalgia nostalgic mines
I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.
new-york writing careers
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.
dictator claims terror
Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right.
believe survival stills
That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say.
thinking people work-out
People think that I work out but it's all t'ai chi.
mean space mind
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?
play musician
You're a musician: You play. That's what you do.
writing play rocks
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.
art thinking ego
I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.
teacher people aspect
Well all tai chi has the martial aspect to it, a lot of people don't know, a lot of the teachers won't show it, or they do show it but you don't really learn it, what the application is.
bothered
Music was what bothered me, what interested me.
I've never been super confident about anything. The work is never as good as it could be.