Lou Reed Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“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.”

“I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.”

“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.”

“Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.”

“The first generation of CDs sounded terrible. Any chance to remaster would make the music sound better than what was already out there.”

“I don't like overdubs, never liked them.”

“Music was what bothered me, what interested me.”

“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.”

“I'm in this business for too long to be halfhearted about anything.”

“For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.”