Talk:Lou Reed

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• Like everything else I do my photos are about emotion. I'm interested in causing and recording emotion through action and interactive sequence, the sequence meant to tell a story of sorts, a dream. I am a lyricist and my feeling for rhythm and song dictates that these photos not be titled or in any other way impinged by the written word. The visuals speak for themselves in their relationships and theme and I have no interest in the where and when of it all. These dreams exist through the viewfinder of the camera and express a reality seen only through a lens but experienced by us all in every moment of puzzlement in waking life.

• The next time I listen to an audience member, standing next to a cabinet, for sound advice — I'll tell you.
  • Spoken to a volunteer acoustician near the stage at during a performance at Crobar (5 April 2005)

• Why aren't I on the cover of Hip Hop Magazine? I never sung a note in my life. I was fucking rapping since '65. 'Life is Unfair.' I think I know that. [to a sideman] Did you know life is unfair?
  • Spoken during a performance at Crobar (5 April 2005)