Lou Reed Quotes

The president's dead, no one can find his head, its been missing for two weeks. But no one seemed to notice it.

When you're growing up in a small town You know you'll grow down in a small town There is only one good use for a small town You hate it and you know you'll have to leave.

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 anybody is anybody else's moral compass.

Speaking in a common tongue, speaking through guitars and drums.

I want the principles of a timeless muse, I want to eradicate my negative views.

I write whatever shows up. That's good enough for me. I'm part of the first generation that wants to still do original material and not tour around as an oldies act.

I'm still not sure I didn't die

One thing I've often thought is that I never want to tell anybody else what to do. It's hard enough to figure out what I want to do.

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.

I'm too old to do things by half

I wanna hear some Diana Ross, I wanna hear some Marvin Gaye. I wanna hear a song that reminds me of a better day.

The most important thing is work.

I can concentrate on my art.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

Let's do what you fear most That from which you recoil But which still makes your eyes moist

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.

Please don't set me free Death means a lot me

I love women, I think they're great.

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

What I really love is my scotch. It's the power, the power of positive drinking.

People can vote for who ever they want. That doesn't mean I have to go near them.

Kill them now, cause I need some kicks. I need some kicks, I'm getting bored.

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

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.

Teach them about anger, the sin that comes with dawning. Teach them about flowers, and the beauty of forgiveness.

Writhe and sway to music's pain searing with asides, caress death with a lover's touch for it shall be your bride.

I've made love to my mother, killed my father, and my brother. What am I to do?

Why don't you swallow razor blades?

When he beat my mother it made me so mad.

The sickness of the mother runs on through the girl, leaving her small and helpless. Liquor flies through her brain with the force of a gun, leaving her running in circles.

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

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.