Lou Reed Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• I've always believed that there's an amazing number of things you can do through a rock'n'roll song and that you can do serious writing in a rock song if you can somehow do it without losing the beat.

  Lou Reed

  Song, Writing, Rocks

  "Outsider Whose Dark, Lyrical Vision Helped Shape Rock 'n' Roll" by Ben Ratliff, www.nytimes.com. October 27, 2013.

• I am bigger and stronger than ever. My Chen Taiji and health regimen has served me well all of these years, thanks to Master Ren Guang-yi. I look forward to being on stage performing, and writing more songs to connect with your hearts and spirits and the universe well into the future.

  Lou Reed

  Song, Writing, Heart

  FaceBook post by Lou Reed from Jun 01, 2013

• 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.

  Lou Reed

  Song, Writing, Doe

• I wanna hear some Diana Ross, I wanna hear some Marvin Gaye. I wanna hear a song that reminds me of a better day.

  Lou Reed

  Song, Musical, Better Days

  Lou Reed (2008). “Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics”, p.408, Da Capo Press

• 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.

  Lou Reed

  Running, Song, College

• 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.

  Lou Reed

  Song, Writing, Self

• 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

• 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.

  Lou Reed

  Song, Fun, Real

• 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

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