Lou Reed Quotes
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Lou Reed Quotes & Sayings
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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
I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.
— Lou Reed
They tied his arms behind his back to teach him how to swim, they put blood in his coffee and milk in his gin.
— Lou Reed
Why don't you swallow razor blades?
— Lou Reed
You do what you love, or you get arrested.
— Lou Reed
Plucked her eyebrows on the way, shaved her legs and then he was a she. She said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side.
— Lou Reed
When I was a kid, my first favorite song was probably Lou Reed's 'Walk on the Wild Side.'
— Michael Rapaport
I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.
— 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
Dear Pope, send me some hope or a rope.
— Lou Reed
Some people drink to unleash their libidos, and other people drink to prop up their egos.
— 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
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 don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.
— 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
There are problems in these times, but none of them are mineI'm beginning to see the light
— Lou Reed
Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.
— Lou Reed
The most important thing is work.
— Lou Reed
Lou Reed was a hero because he was an anti-hero.
— Tom Stoppard
The way Lou Reed wrote and sang about drugs and sex, about the people around him - it was so matter-of-fact,
— Julian Casablancas
I'm tearing down Route 80 East, the sun's on my right side. I'm drunk, but my vision's good.
— Lou Reed
Looking through the viewfinder for me is like being in a movie theater. That's what I like about it.
— 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
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
And I feel just like Jesus' son
— 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 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
Here's to Mulberry Jane
She made jam when she came
Somebody cut off her feet
Now jelly rolls in the street. — Lou Reed
She made jam when she came
Somebody cut off her feet
Now jelly rolls in the street. — Lou Reed
I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.
— 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
You can't beat 2 guitars, bass, and drums.
— Lou Reed
Honey, I'm a cocksucker, what are you?
— Lou Reed
The myriad choices of his fate
Set themselves out upon a plate
For him to choose
What had he to lose — Lou Reed
Set themselves out upon a plate
For him to choose
What had he to lose — Lou Reed
Teach them about anger, the sin that comes with dawning. Teach them about flowers, and the beauty of forgiveness.
— Lou Reed
Just a perfect day, problems all left alone.
— 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
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.
I'm too old to do things by half.
— 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
Here comes Jesse Jackson, he talks of common ground. Does that common ground include me, or is it just a sound?
— Lou Reed
I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.
— Lou Reed
Nothing beats 2 guitars, drum and bass.
— Lou Reed
My week beats your year.
— Lou Reed
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
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
There's only X amount of time. You can do whatever you want with that time. It's your time.
— Lou Reed
It takes a busload of faith to get by.
— 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
Some people are like human tuinals
— Lou Reed
If anyone ever had a heart
He wouldn't turn around and break it
If anyone ever played a part
he wouldn't turn around and hate it. — Lou Reed
He wouldn't turn around and break it
If anyone ever played a part
he wouldn't turn around and hate it. — 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
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
If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.
— 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
I'd harbored hopes that the intelligence that once inhabited novels or films would ingest rock. I was, perhaps, wrong.
— Lou Reed
You're going to reap just what you sow
— Lou Reed
You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums.
— Lou Reed
The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music?
— 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