#or

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz. ↗

— Lou Reed

#chords #fine #into #jazz #pushing

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality? ↗

— Lou Reed

#anything #art #artist #artwork #how

I don't mind a repetitive chorus; I mind repetitive verse. I mean, it's the same amount of space. Why would you have only three diamonds if you can have six? ↗

— Lou Reed

#chorus #diamonds #i #mean #mind

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is. ↗

— Lou Reed

#best #compass #else #i #idea

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

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'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

You're a ring-wearing, save-yourself-for-marriage kind of girl. I dig that. ↗

— E.C. Newman

#ezra-varden #humor #humor

If it has more than three chords, it's jazz. ↗

— Lou Reed

#jazz #more #than #three