"If it has more than three chords, it's…" — Lou Reed
"If it has more than three chords, it's jazz."
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147 Quotes by Lou Reed
Lou Reed has 147 quotes on this site.
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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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More Chords Quotes
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one of 284 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life…
— Annie Besant
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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.
— David Bowie
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There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always…
— David Bowie
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The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don't have the bravery to…
— Kobe Bryant
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All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.
— David Byrne
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The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears.…
— Albert Camus
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Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not…
— Kate Chopin
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Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!
— Leonard Cohen
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There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was…
— Tori Amos
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Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self,…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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