After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and touch the reed at the proper time in the proper way.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room.
The experience of both acting and producing has been wonderful. It certainly has created a full plate. But it is very exciting and rewarding to have creative input on the show. 'Reed' is about love and family and for me, playing a hand in shaping it has been deeply gratifying.
In so many ways, it feels the same now when I play as the very first time I picked up the instrument. There's always this sound out there that's just a little bit beyond my reach and I'm trying to get there and that just sort of keeps me going.
Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.
One other hobby of mine has been playing the oboe but I have not kept this up after 1969.
I play the real instruments. I don't waste my time with anything else.
Lou Reed's music has been in the lives of millions of people all over the world for decades. He had a truly universal presence and was respected by musicians across all genres.
Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
I'm practicing the oboe. But I don't play. Just single notes, not an entire piece of music.