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Song Quotes by Lou Reed
- Not too many songwriters, when they write songs go for broke. When someone does who's really good, it's astonishing. There's a reason a three-minute song…
- I've always believed that there's an amazing number of things you can do through a rock'n'roll song and that you can do serious writing in…
- I am bigger and stronger than ever. My Chen Taiji and health regimen has served me well all of these years, thanks to Master Ren…
- I wanna hear some Diana Ross, I wanna hear some Marvin Gaye. I wanna hear a song that reminds me of a better day.
- For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was…
- I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and…
- When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil Taylor song. I…
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- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill… — Margaret Atwood
- You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song. — Sai Baba
- Every single band in the world has these gigantic songs that people are obsessed with. — Sebastian Bach
- I don't understand the mentality of a rock fan, being obsessed with two or three songs from 25 years ago. I'm not… — Sebastian Bach
- A lot of people when they try to sing Skid Row songs, they're screaming and yelling too much. It's more singing than… — Sebastian Bach
- To think that when they come out with these gigantic songs, it's pretty tough to top them, you know. — Sebastian Bach
- My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies. — Randy Bachman
- I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog. — Erykah Badu
- A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime. — Bryan Adams