Lou Reed Quotes

You've gotta blow the roof off of your heart and let the universe in.

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

Take a walk on the wild side.

Life's like a mayonnaise soda.

These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.

When the past makes you laugh and you can savor the magic that lets you survive your own war, you'll find that that fire is passion and there's a door up ahead - not a wall.

There's only X amount of time. You can do whatever you want with that time. It's your time.

Research, research, research. It means everything.

Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.

It's the music that kept us all intact, kept us from going crazy.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.

The most important thing is work.

My God is rock'n'roll. It's an obscure power that can change your life. The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.

Things always seem to end before they start

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.

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

I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.

You know the expression 'God protects fools and drunks'? I qualify for both.

Any human being should have a tolerance for anybody.

My week beats your year.

Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has.

You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums.

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 can create a vibe without saying anything, just by being in the room.