I'll tell ya, I'm a genuinely nice guy. I really am. A real nice guy. But I think I'm temperamental.
— Lou Reed
I've never been super confident about anything. The work is never as good as it could be.
— Lou Reed
When he beat my mother it made me so mad.
— Lou Reed
Why don't you swallow razor blades?
— Lou Reed
You do what you love, or you get arrested.
— Lou Reed
When I was a kid, my first favorite song was probably Lou Reed's 'Walk on the Wild Side.'
— Michael Rapaport
I'd breed a little liberal army in the wood, just like these redneck lunatics I see at the local bar with their tribe of mutant inbred piglets. — Lou Reed
Any human being should have a tolerance for anybody. — Lou Reed
There's only X amount of time. You can do whatever you want with that time. It's your time. — Lou Reed
she thought maybe she'd be a rock star, but she just ended up another name on the very long list of people Lou Reed was rude to. Yeah, — Cari Luna
The first generation of CDs sounded terrible. Any chance to remaster would make the music sound better than what was already out there. — Lou Reed
My week beats your year. — Lou Reed
Nothing beats 2 guitars, drum and bass. — Lou Reed
One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz. — Lou Reed
You won't see my parents honored on any stamps. — Lou Reed
I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future. — Lou Reed
Here comes Jesse Jackson, he talks of common ground. Does that common ground include me, or is it just a sound? — Lou Reed
The myriad choices of his fateSet themselves out upon a plate
For him to choose
What had he to lose — Lou Reed
You know, when you're relaxed, you're putting it out there, and then it comes, oh, I can do that. — Lou Reed
I'm too old to do things by half. — Lou Reed
Please don't set me free Death means a lot me — Lou Reed
Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also a band it turns out. — Ron Currie Jr.
This violent rage that turned inward cannot be helped by drink. — Lou Reed
With Master Ren, if I'd tell him I can't do that and he'd say, yes you can, and it turns out I very much can do it. — Lou Reed
I've made love to my mother, killed my father, and my brother. What am I to do? — Lou Reed
Just a perfect day, problems all left alone. — Lou Reed
I never liked the Beatles. I thought they were garbage. — Lou Reed
All the people have gone to war leaving no interrogator to mind. — Lou Reed
Teach them about anger, the sin that comes with dawning. Teach them about flowers, and the beauty of forgiveness. — Lou Reed
I don't know anyone actually who does care what a critic says. — Lou Reed
Psychologically, it's better that I think that I'm dirt. — Lou Reed
You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it. — Lou Reed
Stephanie says that she wants to knowWhy she's given half her life,
to people she hates now — Lou Reed
Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful. — Lou Reed
Caroline says as she gets up from the floor, you can hit me all you want to, but I don't love you anymore. — Lou Reed
The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music? — Lou Reed
You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums. — Lou Reed
Families that live out in the suburbs often make each other cry. — Lou Reed
You're going to reap just what you sow — Lou Reed
The music business doesn't interest me anymore. — Lou Reed
It takes a busload of faith to get by. — Lou Reed
But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but. — Lou Reed
The currents rage so deep upon us, this is the age of video violence. — Lou Reed
Senator, it has been reported that you have had illegal congress with your mother. — Lou Reed
Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right. — Lou Reed
If it has more than three chords, it's jazz. — Lou Reed
I would like to live to a ripe old age and raise watermelons in Wyoming. — Lou Reed
I wanna hear some Diana Ross, I wanna hear some Marvin Gaye. I wanna hear a song that reminds me of a better day. — Lou Reed
If anyone ever had a heartHe wouldn't turn around and break it
If anyone ever played a part
he wouldn't turn around and hate it. — Lou Reed
Some people are like human tuinals — Lou Reed
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
I'd harbored hopes that the intelligence that once inhabited novels or films would ingest rock. I was, perhaps, wrong. — Lou Reed
If I was to meet Lou Reed or Bob Dylan, I would be totally helpless. Writers and musicians make me feel completely starstruck. — Toby Stephens
Lou Reed was a hero because he was an anti-hero. — Tom Stoppard
You're a musician: You play. That's what you do. — Lou Reed
The most important thing is work. — Lou Reed
Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony. — Lou Reed
There are problems in these times, but none of them are mineI'm beginning to see the light — Lou Reed
Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat. — Lou Reed
Speaking in a common tongue, speaking through guitars and drums. — Lou Reed
To debate political objectives, views, and goals is the most American thing conceivable. — Lou Reed
When I saw that combination of grace and power, the fast and the soft, the yin and the yang, that's what I'd been looking for. — Lou Reed
I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts. — Lou Reed
Research, research, research. It means everything. — Lou Reed
The baby sits in front of MTV watching violent fantasies, while Dad guzzles beer with his favorite sport only to find his heroes all coked up. — Lou Reed
I can't tell the difference between wrong and right, are you laughing at me? — Lou Reed
I don't really think about what the subject of my next album will be. I just know that I'm going to make another album. — Lou Reed
Some people drink to unleash their libidos, and other people drink to prop up their egos. — Lou Reed
Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things. — Lou Reed
Dear Pope, send me some hope or a rope. — Lou Reed
That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say. — Lou Reed
Eve kissed Able, that's how he got murdered by Cain. — Lou Reed
Honey, I'm a cocksucker, what are you? — Lou Reed
You can't beat 2 guitars, bass, and drums. — Lou Reed
I've become completely well adjusted to being a cult figure. — Lou Reed
Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has. — Lou Reed
People can vote for who ever they want. That doesn't mean I have to go near them. — Lou Reed
Between thought and expression lies a lifetime. — Lou Reed
I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen. — Lou Reed
Here's to Mulberry JaneShe made jam when she came
Somebody cut off her feet
Now jelly rolls in the street. — Lou Reed
I'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 Reed
Jealousy endlessly eats through my mind, and jealously endlessly makes me be unkind. — Lou Reed
I love Ornette Coleman. I love Don Cherry. I love the way those guys play. — Lou Reed
These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible. — Lou Reed
I'm in this business for too long to be halfhearted about anything. — Lou Reed
And I feel just like Jesus' son — Lou Reed
Over what guilty spirit to not hear the beating, to not hear the beating, but only tears of perfect moan, only tears of perfect moan. — Lou Reed
When you pass through the fire, you pass through humble. — Lou Reed
Lou Reed drove Honda scooters these days, and I was a hell of a lot closer to the wild side than him. — Warren Moore
Looking through the viewfinder for me is like being in a movie theater. That's what I like about it. — Lou Reed
I'm tearing down Route 80 East, the sun's on my right side. I'm drunk, but my vision's good. — Lou Reed
First thing you learnis that you'vealways got to wait — Lou Reed
The way Lou Reed wrote and sang about drugs and sex, about the people around him - it was so matter-of-fact, — Julian Casablancas
