C.E. Santana's Blog, page 18
October 27, 2013
"I have never thought of music as a challenge — you always figure the audience is at least as smart..."
“I have never thought of music as a challenge — you always figure the audience is at least as smart as you are. 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.”
- Lou Reed (via 106milestochicago)
- Lou Reed (via 106milestochicago)
"The old sound was alcoholic. The tradition was finally broken. The music is sex and drugs and happy...."
“The old sound was alcoholic. The tradition was finally broken. The music is sex and drugs and happy. And happy is the joke the music understands best. Ultrasonic sounds on records to cause frontal lobotomies. Hey, don’t be afraid. You’d better take drugs and learn to love PLASTIC. All different kinds of plastic - pliable, rigid, colored, colorful, nonattached plastic.”
- Lou Reed (via talentisanasset)
- Lou Reed (via talentisanasset)
"I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it."
“I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it.”
- lou reed (via cuteshitallthetime)
- lou reed (via cuteshitallthetime)
theparisreview:
“Time being of the essence in the purity of...
“Time being of the essence in the purity of speech, sketching language is undisturbed flow from the mind of personal secret idea-words, blowing (as per jazz musician) on subject of image.” In 1957, Jack Kerouac published “Essentials of Spontaneous Prose,” in response to a request from Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs to explain how he wrote The Subterraneans in three days. (via)
