Best 155 quotes of Lou Reed on MyQuotes

All I want to do, is write rock and roll that you could listen to as you got older, and it wouldn't lose anything; it would be timeless, in the subject matter and the literacy of the lyrics.

All the people have gone to war leaving no interrogator to mind.

And I feel just like Jesus' son

And no kinds of love are better than others

An eye for an eye is elemental.

As the dead rise to live, the live sink to die, the currents are deep and raging inside.

As you practice things, you get better. I mean I've worked very hard on changing my life and taking what is good about it and trying to jettison the things I think were not good about it. I think the key word is "discipline," focus. I'm always working at it, but I'm not always successful.

Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.

But I found tai chi when I was studying with Leung Shum, who teaches Eagle Claw and Wu Hao.

But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.

But it's not only: What are you going to do about touring, it's: What are you going to do with your life? Is there a point to what we do? I think there is. Making music, creating beautiful things. We have to be in love with the good and the beautiful. If we are not, then you're in a nihilistic state.

But it's the things that preceded it that made that happen, and of course now someone like me thinks, well, if I can do that... then there are a lot of other things that are possible.

Caroline says as she gets up from the floor, you can hit me all you want to, but I don't love you anymore.

Dear Pope, send me some hope or a rope.

Don't the people you're around shape the music, is that what you're saying? Everything does.

Eve kissed Able, that's how he got murdered by Cain.

Families that live out in the suburbs often make each other cry.

For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.

Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor, that's what the Statue of Bigotry says. Your poor huddled masses, let's just club them to death, and get it over with.

Here comes Jesse Jackson, he talks of common ground. Does that common ground include me, or is it just a sound?

Herpes, AIDS, the Middle East at full throttle. Better check that sausage before you put it in the waffle.

High energy does not necessarily mean fast, high energy has to do with heart.

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it.

I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.

I am bigger and stronger than ever. My Chen Taiji and health regimen has served me well all of these years, thanks to Master Ren Guang-yi. I look forward to being on stage performing, and writing more songs to connect with your hearts and spirits and the universe well into the future.

I am very emotionally affected by sound. Sounds are the inexplicable... There is a sound you hear in your head, it's your nerves, or your blood running.

I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.

I can't tell the difference between wrong and right, are you laughing at me?

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.

I'd harbored hopes that the intelligence that once inhabited novels or films would ingest rock. I was, perhaps, wrong.

I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.

I don't know anyone actually who does care what a critic says.

I don't know what goes on in the crowd. I've had them show up and throw beer cans at me. I caused riots in most of the major cities.

I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.

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.

I don't mind a repetitive chorus; I mind repetitive verse. I mean, it's the same amount of space. Why would you have only three diamonds if you can have six?

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.

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass.

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.

I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.

I dreamed that I was young and smart, and it was not a waste. I dreamed that there was a point of life, and to the human race.

If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.

If someone teaches you alignment and - I'm not a tai chi expert by any stretch - so interviewing me about tai chi is kind of the cart before the horse - but just from my point of view as a student, it's simply that Master Ren can show you the relationship of power, stance and form.

I have no control over the audience. I have no idea what they think. My heart's pure. I can't do anything. I really can't do anything. I don't know what goes on in the crowd.

I like druggy downtown kids who spray paint walls and trains. I like their lack of training, their primitive technique. I think it hurts you, when you stay too long in school.

I like mindless disco... they say the lyrics are stupid and repetitious. So what's wrong with that? So is lying in the sun. Not everything has to be serious.

I'll tell ya, I'm a genuinely nice guy. I really am. A real nice guy. But I think I'm temperamental.

I love Ornette Coleman. I love Don Cherry. I love the way those guys play.

I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.