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Lou Reed

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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


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Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right.


— Lou Reed


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Take a walk on the wild side.


— Lou Reed


#take #walk #wild

That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say.


— Lou Reed


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The first generation of CDs sounded terrible. Any chance to remaster would make the music sound better than what was already out there.


— Lou Reed


#any #better #cds #chance #first

The music business doesn't interest me anymore.


— Lou Reed


#business #interest #me #music #music business

The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music?


— Lou Reed


#dying #else #everything #music #people

There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.


— Lou Reed


#even #everything #loss #magic #out

There's only X amount of time. You can do whatever you want with that time. It's your time.


— Lou Reed


#only #our time #time #want #whatever

These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.


— Lou Reed


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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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