Rock does this thing to you
“Rock does this thing to you,” Lou Reed told me in 1987. “You get directly to someone, unfiltered. This person doesn’t have to go to a movie theatre. This person will be listening, alone, maybe at five in the morning.”
“What was important,” he said of the Velvets’ real agenda, “was the records going out, going out to people. These people were going into their homes and apartments with these records and really listening to them. And we were always writing on a one-to-one level. So if you listen to the record, it’s like somebody sitting across from you.”
David Fricke, 1995, from the liner notes “Peel Slowly And See”