Lou Reed
But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.
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.
Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat.
I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it.
I can concentrate on my art.
I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.
I don't like overdubs, never liked them.
I don't really think about what the subject of my next album will be. I just know that I'm going to make another album.
I love Ornette Coleman. I love Don Cherry. I love the way those guys play.
I'm in this business for too long to be halfhearted about anything.
I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.
Music was what bothered me, what interested me.
Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful.
The music business doesn't interest me anymore.
When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment.
You can't beat 2 guitars, bass, and drums.
I'm a humanist.
The first generation of CDs sounded terrible. Any chance to remaster would make the music sound better than what was already out there.
I don't know what goes on in the crowd. I've had them show up and throw beer cans at me. I caused riots in most of the major cities.
You've gotta blow the roof off of your heart and let the universe in.Collection: Heart
Life's like a mayonnaise soda.Collection: Philosophy
When the past makes you laugh and you can savor the magic that lets you survive your own war, you'll find that that fire is passion and there's a door up ahead - not a wall.Collection: Wall
Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.Collection: Clever
It's the music that kept us all intact, kept us from going crazy.Collection: Music
Research, research, research. It means everything.Collection: Mean
My God is rock'n'roll. It's an obscure power that can change your life. The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.Collection: Rocks
I'd breed a little liberal army in the wood, just like these redneck lunatics I see at the local bar with their tribe of mutant inbred piglets.Collection: Army
You know the expression 'God protects fools and drunks'? I qualify for both.Collection: Expression
Things always seem to end before they startCollection: Ends
Any human being should have a tolerance for anybody.Collection: Should Have
My week beats your year.Collection: Years
You do this because you like it, you think what you're making is beautiful. And if you think it's beautiful, maybe they think it's beautiful.Collection: Inspirational
When you pass through the fire, you pass through humble.Collection: Humble
Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor, that's what the Statue of Bigotry says. Your poor huddled masses, let's just club them to death, and get it over with.Collection: Tired
Some people drink to unleash their libidos, and other people drink to prop up their egos.Collection: People
It's interesting to have a conglomeration of people that covers the strata from A to Z... There's a certain element of the audience that's intellectually oriented, into the lyrics... then there's another element of the audience that's into a sex trip. I'm into both of them.Collection: Sex
I love women, I think they're great.Collection: Thinking
Herpes, AIDS, the Middle East at full throttle. Better check that sausage before you put it in the waffle.Collection: Reality
I had started also studying because I wanted to learn more about power and fighting.Collection: Fighting
But I found tai chi when I was studying with Leung Shum, who teaches Eagle Claw and Wu Hao.Collection: Eagles
People can vote for who ever they want. That doesn't mean I have to go near them.Collection: Mean
There were lots of things that I recognized from my experience with Eagle Claw and Wu Hao, and here was the combination of the whole kit and kaboodle, the whole tamale in one.Collection: Eagles
My attitude is that you very rarely come in contact with someone of Master Ren's level, so every opportunity I could get to learn from him I wanted to do that.Collection: Attitude
I've gone out with my shotgun. This is hunting country out there. You better run.Collection: Running
People didn't know certain things about me, which... I was out of creative writing class in school, Syracuse University; had a B.A. in English and wanted to write the great American novel but I also loved rock and roll. I was in bar bands all through college, playing fraternities and have to know all the songs in the top 10. That kind of thing.Collection: Song
As the dead rise to live, the live sink to die, the currents are deep and raging inside.Collection: Reality
You know, some people got no choice, and they can never find a voice, to talk with that they can even call their own. So the first thing that they see, that allows them the right to be, why they follow it, you know, it's called bad luck.Collection: Voice
I've found that from my point of view, the Chen style contained many things that I knew on a fairly superficial level from Eagle Claw, and that had Chen elements of what seemed to me the soft in Eagle Claw.Collection: Eagles
If someone teaches you alignment and - I'm not a tai chi expert by any stretch - so interviewing me about tai chi is kind of the cart before the horse - but just from my point of view as a student, it's simply that Master Ren can show you the relationship of power, stance and form.Collection: Horse