Lou Reed Quotes
I mean, there are peripheral things I do, I do photography, I write plays, I have books published, but that's neither here not there.
Don't the people you're around shape the music, is that what you're saying? Everything does.
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.
Looking through the viewfinder for me is like being in a movie theater. That's what I like about it.
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.
When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil Taylor song. I used to run around the Village following Ornette Coleman wherever he played.
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.
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 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.
Over what guilty spirit to not hear the beating, to not hear the beating, but only tears of perfect moan, only tears of perfect moan.
The myriad choices of his fateSet themselves out upon a plateFor him to chooseWhat had he to lose
