"I don't like the word rock opera, but……" — Lou Reed
"I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels."
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147 Quotes by Lou Reed
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Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.
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I'd harbored hopes that the intelligence that once inhabited novels or films would ingest rock. I was, perhaps, wrong.
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You do this because you like it, you think what you're making is beautiful. And if you think it's beautiful,…
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You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it...I always believed that I have something important…
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I'm too old to do things by half
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Not too many songwriters, when they write songs go for broke. When someone does who's really good, it's astonishing. There's…
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I love women, I think they're great.
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Please don't set me free Death means a lot me
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You know, some people got no choice, and they can never find a voice, to talk with that they can…
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I think it's important that people don't feel alone.
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They put the thing down your throat so you don't swallow your tongue, and they put electrodes on your head.…
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I've always believed that there's an amazing number of things you can do through a rock'n'roll song and that you…
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