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Lou Reed
1942 – 2013 • American • Musician
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Showing 60 quotesI 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
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
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
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
I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.— Lou Reed
I am very emotionally affected by sound. Sounds are the inexplicable... There is a sound you hear in your head, it's your nerves, or your blood running.— Lou Reed