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Lou Reed

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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.


— Lou Reed


#cans #caused #cities #crowd #goes

I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.


— Lou Reed


#like #mine #nostalgia #unless

I don't like overdubs, never liked them.


— Lou Reed


#like #liked #never #overdubs #them

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


#level #like #novels #opera #plays

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.


— Lou Reed


#album #another #going #i #just

I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.


— Lou Reed


#artist #arts #call #i #martial

I love Ornette Coleman. I love Don Cherry. I love the way those guys play.


— Lou Reed


#coleman #guys #i #i love #love

I tried to give up drugs by drinking.


— Lou Reed


#give #i #i tried #tried #up

I'm a humanist.


— Lou Reed


#i

I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.


— Lou Reed


#egotistical #i #i can #means #want






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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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