Ed Reed Quotes

The rich son waits for his father to die, the poor just drink and cry.

Psychologically, it's better that I think that I'm dirt.

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

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

I don't like overdubs, never liked them.

This violent rage that turned inward cannot be helped by drink.

The only thing constantly changing is change, and change is always changing for the worse.

Senator, it has been reported that you have had illegal congress with your mother.

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

The injuries we do in kind are visited upon us often. In the science of the mind, trying hard to move a shadow.

My attitude is that you very rarely come in contact with someone of Master Ren's level, so every opportunity I could get to learn from him I wanted to do that.

I'm not leaving New York. And neither is anyone else. We're here. We are quintessential Americans - we're not only American, but New York-American.

You know, when you're relaxed, you're putting it out there, and then it comes, oh, I can do that.

I wish I had a talking book that told me how to act and look, a talking book that contained keys to past and present memories

Bodily changes take place, like the thing with the kick.

There were lots of things that I recognized from my experience with Eagle Claw and Wu Hao, and here was the combination of the whole kit and kaboodle, the whole tamale in one.

Well all tai chi has the martial aspect to it, a lot of people don't know, a lot of the teachers won't show it, or they do show it but you don't really learn it, what the application is.

I try very much, whenever I do projects, whatever it is, there's only one thing on my mind, only one thing.

I mean, there are peripheral things I do, I do photography, I write plays, I have books published, but that's neither here not there.

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

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.

People think that I work out but it's all t'ai chi.

Looking through the viewfinder for me is like being in a movie theater. That's what I like about it.

Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.

When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil Taylor song. I used to run around the Village following Ornette Coleman wherever he played.

How could you even dream or think something of someone who is as uncommercial as I am?

There are problems in these times, but none of them are mineI'm beginning to see the light

And I feel just like Jesus' son

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.

The currents rage so deep upon us, this is the age of video violence.

Jealousy endlessly eats through my mind, and jealously endlessly makes me be unkind.

What could there be more purely bright in truth's day star?

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

When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment.

I've gone out with my shotgun. This is hunting country out there. You better run.

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.

To debate political objectives, views, and goals is the most American thing conceivable.

I've become completely well adjusted to being a cult figure.

When critics ask you if you feel vindicated by other critics - I didn't like critics then, and I don't like them now. There you go. I've always been outside the mainstream, and it stayed that way.

I've never been super confident about anything. The work is never as good as it could be.

The music business doesn't interest me anymore.

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.

Making an issue of a little thing is one of the surest ways to spoil happiness.

when you can't see straight ahead, it's because you're about to turn a corner.

When the years bring wisdom, one learns to leave many problems to their own working out.

Youth asks no greater privilege than to fight its own battles. It is mistaken kindness to shield - it weakens one in the years to come.

Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure solace lies there.

It is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love.

There is only one path which leads to the house of forgiveness - that of understanding.

After the door of a woman's heart has once swung on its silent hinges, a man thinks he can prop it open with a brick and go away and leave it.