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
songwriting ask-me asks
You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it.
thinking next albums
I don't really think about what the subject of my next album will be. I just know that I'm going to make another album.
art modern choreography
I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.
beautiful hip-hop important
I wouldn't want to hear Beethoven without beautiful bass, the cellos, the tuba. It's very important. Hip-hop has thunderous bass. And so does Beethoven. If you don't have the bass, it's like being amputated. It's like you have no legs.
thinking ideas listening
I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.
song fun real
I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.
art people creative
I was a product of Andy Warhol's Factory. All I did was sit there and observe these incredibly talented and creative people who were continually making art, and it was impossible not to be affected by that.
thinking
I love women, I think they're great.
song writing doe
Not too many songwriters, when they write songs go for broke. When someone does who's really good, it's astonishing. There's a reason a three-minute song can devastate you, or make you get up and dance, stop what you're doing and go, 'What is that?' It just hits you. And it's a very potent thing you're playing around with.
love family happiness
I'm too old to do things by half
crazy rocks film
I'd harbored hopes that the intelligence that once inhabited novels or films would ingest rock. I was, perhaps, wrong.
music dream thinking
How could you even dream or think something of someone who is as uncommercial as I am?
temporary
It's just a temporary thing.
not-sure stills dies
I'm still not sure I didn't die