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Lou Reed

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I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.


— Lou Reed


#artists #create #ego #i #i think

In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle.


— Lou Reed


#i #insanity #interested #late #lifestyle

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


— Lou Reed


#created #doubt #great #i #know

I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it.


— Lou Reed


#believed #i #i always #important #said

I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.


— Lou Reed


#arts #choreography #could #i #i always

I can concentrate on my art.


— Lou Reed


#concentrate #i #i can

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.


— Lou Reed


#anything #i #little #me #mean

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


— Lou Reed


#because #bucket #cleaned #i #kicked

I don't know anyone actually who does care what a critic says.


— Lou Reed


#anyone #care #critic #does #i

I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.


— Lou Reed


#going #happen #happens #i #i think






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You can't read a book because you get to page 17 and have to go right back to page one again. Disappointed with Reed's performance Cale was nevertheless impressed by Reed's early repertoire (including "Heroin") and a partnership began to evolve. This film which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in the U.

After his departure from the group Reed began a solo career in 1971. [citation needed] In 1975 Reed released a double album of feedback loops Metal Machine Music upon which he later commented "No one is supposed to be able to do a thing like that and survive. As the Velvet Underground's principal songwriter Reed wrote about subjects of personal experience that rarely had been examined so openly in rock and roll including sexuality and drug culture.

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