Lou ReedMe, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things. ✨ Lou Reed dead: 14 of the Velvet Underground legend's best quotes by James Robertson, www.… ▶373Death
Lou ReedI 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? ✨ Lou Reed: Wha… ▶351Thought
Lou ReedPeople think that I work out but it's all t'ai chi. ✨ Biography / Personal Quotes. www.imdb.com.362HumanityThought
Lou ReedI 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… ▶374Thought
Lou ReedAny human being should have a tolerance for anybody.374Humanity
Lou ReedI'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any attention at all. ✨ My brilliant and trou… ▶353HumanityTruth
Lou ReedI was a product of Andy Warhol's Factory. All I did was sit there and observe these incredibly talented and creative people who were continually making art, and it was impossible … ▶331HumanityTruth
Lou ReedI'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. ✨ FaceBook post byLou Reed from Apr 27, 2… ▶353Reading
Lou ReedI don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.364Philosophy
Lou ReedLife is like Sanskrit read to a pony. ✨ Song: What's Good, Album: Magic and Loss, 1992353LifeReading
Lou ReedYou've gotta blow the roof off of your heart and let the universe in.376Love
Lou ReedI would like to live to a ripe old age and raise watermelons in Wyoming. ✨ Lou Reed v Lester Bangs: a classic interview from the vaults by Lester Bangs, www.theguardian.com.… ▶333Time
Lou ReedI think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.377Thought
Lou ReedIt's the music that kept us all intact, kept us from going crazy.322Love
Lou ReedThe music business doesn't interest me anymore.312Humor
Lou ReedSome even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right.367Politics
Lou ReedI always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music. ✨ Interviewing Lou Reed: Not a perfect day by… ▶323Thought
Lou ReedMy God is rock'n'roll.357Death
Lou ReedWill none of the powers that be realize what Brian Wilson did with the chords. Deftly taking from all sources, old rock, Four Freshman, he got in his records a beautiful hybrid so… ▶303Politics
Lou ReedBetween thought and expression lies a lifetime. ✨ Song: Some Kinda Love3710LifeLoveThought
Lou ReedIt always bothers me to see people writing RIP when a person dies. It just feels so insincere and like a cop out. To me, RIP is the microwave dinner of posthumous honours.336DeathHumanity
Lou ReedMusic was what bothered me, what interested me.314Love
Lou ReedI wouldn't want to hear Beethoven without beautiful bass, the cellos, the tuba. It's very important. Hip-hop has thunderous bass. And so does Beethoven. If you don't have the bass… ▶292Philosophy
Lou ReedI cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.303Love
Lou ReedIf it has more than three chords, it's jazz.314Reading
Lou ReedI think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen. ✨ Remembering Lou Reed: 10 Quotes From A True Rock God by Sam Parker, www.esquire… ▶358ThoughtTruth
Lou ReedI've always believed that there's an amazing number of things you can do through a rock'n'roll song and that you can do serious writing in a rock song if you can somehow do it wit… ▶3610Time
Lou ReedYou're a musician: You play. That's what you do. ✨ Lou Reed: What I've Learned by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.326Politics
Lou ReedNot too many songwriters, when they write songs go for broke. When someone does who's really good, it's astonishing. There's a reason a three-minute song can devastate you, or mak… ▶359Politics
Lou ReedI love women, I think they're great. ✨ Song: Women, Album: The Blue Mask305LoveThought
