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Music Quotes by Lou Reed
- You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it...I always believed that I have something important to say and I said…
- It's the music that kept us all intact, kept us from going crazy.
- Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.
- The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music?
- 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…
- I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.
- Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.
- Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has.
- Music was what bothered me, what interested me.
- Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.
- The music business doesn't interest me anymore.
- How could you even dream or think something of someone who is as uncommercial as I am?
- The first generation of CDs sounded terrible. Any chance to remaster would make the music sound better than what was already out there.
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- Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. — Louis Armstrong
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- We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself. — Louis Armstrong