Lou Reed Quotes - Page 2

You do this because you like it, you think what you're making is beautiful. And if you think it's beautiful, maybe they think it's beautiful.

When you think the night has seen your mind, That inside your twisted and unkind, Let me stand to show that you are blind. Please put down you hands cause I see you. I'll be you mirror.

An eye for an eye is elemental.

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

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.

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

I'm still not sure I didn't die

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

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.

When you pass through the fire, you pass through humble.

I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.

That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say.

Some people drink to unleash their libidos, and other people drink to prop up their egos.

I take drugs just because in the 20th century in a technological age living in the city there are certain drugs you have to take just to keep yourself normal like a caveman. Just to bring yourself up or down, but to attain equilibrium you need to take certain drugs. They don't getcha high even, they just getcha normal.

My God is rock'n'roll.

It 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.

I'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.

You do what you love, or you get arrested.

Not 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 make you get up and dance, stop what you're doing and go, 'What is that?' It just hits you. And it's a very potent thing you're playing around with.

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

You can't always trust your mother.

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 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, it's like being amputated. It's like you have no legs.

Electricity comes from other planets.

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