Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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Related I've interviewed everyone from Joe Strummer to Iggy Pop. GREG GUTFELD I love English rock music the best and have always been fascinated by The Clash, especially Joe Stru... CARLA BRUNI It's a miracle that David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are actually still alive today, given how... MICK ROCK But, I'm a big Johnny Cash and a big Lou Reed fan and a Fellini fan. NOAH TAYLOR I got to watch my heroes meet him and saw how they reacted, whether it was Joe Strummer or Tom Waits... JAKOB DYLAN When I was very little, I was into Michael Jackson. At six or seven, it was Madonna, but she's n... LYKKE LI For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood... LOU REED There are beauty icons that I can never be like, sorta like a Gena Rowlands - I'll never have th... NATASHA LYONNE Lou Reed was a hero because he was an anti-hero. TOM STOPPARD Henry Rollins, Jello Biafra and Joe Strummer were among this generation's prophets that foretold of ... SEAN KEVIN SWEENEY I learned loudness from working with Lou Reed. ROBERT WILSON There is no attempt by Walter Reed to hide the number of patients we receive. ANN JOHNSON If I was to meet Lou Reed or Bob Dylan, I would be totally helpless. Writers and musicians make me f... TOBY STEPHENS Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was ... RON CURRIE JR. The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong. ARTO LINDSAY I do think it's probably true to a certain extent that you tend to sing music that fits your voi... TEDDY THOMPSON And every little chamber was one reed long, and one reed broad; and between the little chambers were... BIBLE I never got lessons. I took influence from Chet Baker, Ian Dury, and Joe Strummer. I don't hear ... KING KRULE I played with Sam Lay, Jimmy Reed, Big Walter Horton, Big Moose Walker, and all those guys. JIMMY SMITH Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose w... MIRA GRANT Given a choice between being happy or being efficient and safe, I'll take efficient and safe. BOB BUCKHORN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time. BARRY MANILOW I worked as an artist, played in a band, met Andy Warhol, Christo, Lou Reed, and David Byrne. I had ... MARY LOU JEPSEN My hairdresser in the U.K., Adam Reed, has his own line, Percy and Reed, and it's really good. A... ELLIE GOULDING It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's... MICHAEL SCHEUER I went to Walter Reed hospital a couple of times to visit wounded soldiers, kids with no legs and on... JEFF DANIELS I said three things when I woke up in Walter Reed. 'I love you.' 'Put me to work,' a... TAMMY DUCKWORTH Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. N... ERIC CLAPTON Given a choice between their worldview and the facts, it's always interesting how many people to... REBECCA SOLNIT Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer... STEPHEN MALKMUS I see it everywhere I go, ... I see it when I visit military bases, when I visit Walter Reed [Army M... LAURA BUSH The thing about Strummer was he walked it like he talked it, ... He didn't cop out. He didn't show o... BILLY BRAGG Mike Ditka changed my life, just like Lou Holtz change my life, just like Bill Reed changed my life.... DAN HAMPTON Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief. WILLIAM FAULKNER If you want to see that human story unfold, if you want to understand that only the unexpected life ... ELIZABETH WURTZEL If there's a choice between tap water and bottled water, the consumer can make that choice. In a... MUHTAR KENT I couldn't sing without a guitar. I like the way it feels to sing and be holding a guitar, even ... ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. I have total respect for the self-contained rock artist. Whether you're dealing with Jerry Garci... CLIVE DAVIS I have been listening a lot to The Carpenters and Neil Diamond, Elton John, and thinking, like, '... BAT FOR LASHES As someone who's spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded... AL FRANKEN Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. BLAISE PASCAL Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed BLAISE PASCAL To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spiri... STEVE LACY A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them NINON DE LENCLOS man is only a reed, the weakest thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. BLAISE PASCAL People said that way back in the early days I was probably one of the first rappers; the reason is t... ALAN VEGA Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain. WILLIAM FAULKNER Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain WILLIAM FAULKNER Given a choice between my life and yours, I will choose mine. Every time. Without hesitation. RAE CARSON It is better to be wrong (fail) in doing the right thing than to be right (successful) in doing the ... JAIME CONTRERAS Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it... VALERIE BERTINELLI In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get b... JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH I'm not head-strong, and I'm not egotistical. I understand certain things better now. I won&... ERIC DAVIS If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness SOURCE UNKNOWN When I was younger, I always liked acting. You know, like, acting locally, or community theater at s... TAVI GEVINSON I've been giving free money seminars for the troops at Walter Reed Hospital and one of the Iraqi... MATTHEW LESKO Ever since I was a little kid and first heard Jimmy Reed's 'Honey, Don't Let Me Go,'... BILLY GIBBONS I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in f... MARLO THOMAS I think everyone can relate to the idea of making a bad choice - and knowing it's a bad choice -... KATHLEEN ROBERTSON Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness - or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's... DAVID CAMERON I enjoy all aspects of singing and I'm luckily given the choice to be part of different styles o... BRYN TERFEL To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Right before 'Brian's Song' there was a period when I was very despondent, broke, depres... BILLY DEE WILLIAMS The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television. •Anonymous Given a ... ANONYMOUS Okemos was playing really well, and that had a lot more to do with it than us playing poorly. They w... BRUCE LARNER I think the years on 'The Donna Reed Show,' the years from 14 to 19, were so incredibly impo... SHELLEY FABARES I say I'm the only serious comedian in the presidential race. And I'd like to take this oppo... ROSEANNE BARR Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky. PATRICK STUMP I think we built the right future. If it's a choice between the flying car or the Internet, tabl... DAVID GERROLD I grew up singing Ray Charles and Jimmy Reed. AARON NEVILLE I got a poster from Columbia Records, and there's Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ellington, Count ... DAVE BRUBECK My grandmother used to go with her church to visit the soldiers at Walter Reed. But she had to stop.... CARL JACKSON If a choice is given to us between being mortal and being immortal, you will find no one in the grou... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Havana, Cuba, in which city yellow fever had not failed to make its yearly appearance during the pas... WALTER REED If I were given a choice between two films and one was dark and explored depraved, troubled or sick ... DAVID SCHWIMMER Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, al... JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Matt was like Willis Reed coming back out of the locker room. BILLY LANGE He struggled with black and white. But when he got to Arles in 1888, he discovered the reed pen, and... COLTA IVES There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether to let it affect you or not... VALERIE BERTINELLI There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave. Their choice may be between bondage a... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I don't like this terminology that you have no choice. You always have a choice. EHUD OLMERT You can be vegetarian and eat fish. It's your choice, just say: 'I am what I am.' There ... YOTAM OTTOLENGHI It didn't came out from nowhere... it was just your choice. So the difference between this and this ... DEYTH BANGER We're always going to argue about abortion. It's a hard choice and it's controversial, a... HILLARY CLINTON Ethan Kilmer and Tyler Reed didn't even go to the scouting combine. But that's the funny part of thi... JOE BUTLER When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind. - Dr Wayne W. Dyer R.J. PALACIO I'm a big fan of songs like Joe Cocker's 'You Are So Beautiful' and Eric Clapton'... BRUNO MARS There is always a choice between human excellence and technological excellence. APURVA GAGLANI Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier. ANONYMOUS I visited Lou Reed in New York a few times before I went away. I visited them a few times when I was... JONATHAN RICHMAN I have reached a conclusion that when we have to make a choice between greater Israel or a Jewish de... EHUD OLMERT I never had a particular sound. There was no Lou Adler sound like there's a Phil Spector sound. ... LOU ADLER If I had to make a choice between no advice and biased advice, I'd choose biased advice because I th... BARBARA ROPER I enjoy all aspects of singing and I'm luckily given the choice to be part of different styles of mu... BRYN TERFEL [Drawing didn't always come easy.] He struggled with black and white, ... But when he got to Arles i... COLTA IVES Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea? NEIL GAIMAN There’s precious little choice.” “There’s always a choice! This one is a choice between ‘b... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I only met Ian Fleming once, at a party given by my father's friend the director Carol Reed, at ... MICHAEL KORDA I think Reed is way ahead of where he was a season ago. RANDY SHADA
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