Lou Reed Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• It always bothers me to see people writing RIP when a person dies. It just feels so insincere and like a cop out. To me, RIP is the microwave dinner of posthumous honours.

  Lou Reed

  Rip, Writing, People

• 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'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any attention at all.

  Lou Reed

  Real, Believe, Writing

  "My brilliant and troubled friend Lou Reed" by Anthony DeCurtis, www.theguardian.com. October 01, 2017.

• 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

• 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.

  Lou Reed

  New York, Writing, Careers

• 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.

  Lou Reed

  Writing, Rocks, Play

• 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 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

• 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

• 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.

  Lou Reed

  Photography, Book, Writing

• 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

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