Lou Reed Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“You're a musician: You play. That's what you do.”

“But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.”

“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.”

“Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful.”

“I'll tell ya, I'm a genuinely nice guy. I really am. A real nice guy. But I think I'm temperamental.”

“I don't know what goes on in the crowd. I've had them show up and throw beer cans at me. I caused riots in most of the major cities.”

“When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment.”

“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.”

“I love Ornette Coleman. I love Don Cherry. I love the way those guys play.”

“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.”