The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music?
Lou ReedDon't the people you're around shape the music, is that what you're saying? Everything does.
Lou ReedI'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.
Lou ReedWill none of the powers that be realize what Brian Wilson did with the chords. Deftly taking from all sources, old rock, Four Freshman, he got in his records a beautiful hybrid sound - Let Him Run Wild, Don't Worry Baby, I Get Around, Fun, Fun, Fun - 'and she had fun, fun, fun 'till her daddy took her T-bird away.'
Lou Reed