Latest Lou Reed Quotes from Interviews

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• Music is an amazing thing. I don't know if we really think about it the same way we consider a painting an amazing thing. I mean, a painting is, in quotes, imaginary. There is nothing on the canvas when you start; and writing a song, there is nothing there when you start.

  Lou Reed

  Song, Writing, Mean

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• One thing I've often thought is that I never want to tell anybody else what to do. It's hard enough to figure out what I want to do.

  Lou Reed

  Want, Enough, Figures

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Lou Reed

  Couple, Fun, Eye

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• To debate political objectives, views, and goals is the most American thing conceivable.

  Lou Reed

  Views, Goal, Political

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Lou Reed

  Sex, People, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The gay people know where I'm at. Straight people may not know where I'm at, but they find it kind of interesting when they show up and see what is sitting around them.

  Lou Reed

  Gay, People, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• When critics ask you if you feel vindicated by other critics - I didn't like critics then, and I don't like them now. There you go. I've always been outside the mainstream, and it stayed that way.

  Lou Reed

  Way, Mainstream, Critics

• Research, research, research. It means everything.

  Lou Reed

  Mean, Research

  Lou Reed (2015). “Lou Reed: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.84, Melville House

• I write whatever shows up. That's good enough for me. I'm part of the first generation that wants to still do original material and not tour around as an oldies act.

  Lou Reed

  Writing, Generations, Want

  Lou Reed (2015). “Lou Reed: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.84, Melville House

• 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.

  Lou Reed

  Writing, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Source: blankonblank.org

• I never liked the Beatles. I thought they were garbage.

  Lou Reed

  Garbage

  Source: blankonblank.org

• I've gone out with my shotgun. This is hunting country out there. You better run.

  Lou Reed

  Running, Country, Hunting

  Source: blankonblank.org

• People didn't know certain things about me, which... I was out of creative writing class in school, Syracuse University; had a B.A. in English and wanted to write the great American novel but I also loved rock and roll. I was in bar bands all through college, playing fraternities and have to know all the songs in the top 10. That kind of thing.

  Lou Reed

  Song, School, Writing

  Source: blankonblank.org

• 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.

  Lou Reed

  Night, Journey, College

  Source: blankonblank.org

• As you practice things, you get better. I mean I've worked very hard on changing my life and taking what is good about it and trying to jettison the things I think were not good about it. I think the key word is "discipline," focus. I'm always working at it, but I'm not always successful.

  Lou Reed

  Mean, Successful, Thinking

  Source: articles.latimes.com