Lou Reed Quotes - Page 4

Well, everybody does something, some people race cars, others collect stamps, I find tai chi to be philosophically, aesthetically, physically and spiritually fascinating.

As you practice things, you get better. I mean I've worked very hard on changing my life and taking what is good about it and trying to jettison the things I think were not good about it. I think the key word is "discipline," focus. I'm always working at it, but I'm not always successful.

I 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 not to be affected by that.

Sometimes, you've got to be in a place. You're just another guy. You can just blend in. I live out in the wilds of nowhere, out in Jersey. Even there, there's sometimes problems. College students like journey out there and show up at 11 o'clock at night, on my porch, looking into the door not saying anything. My wife and I are sitting there; it's really creepy.

I'm tearing down Route 80 East, the sun's on my right side. I'm drunk, but my vision's good.

It's fun to be in a small club and to be able to look somebody right in the eye and watch them just freak. Then it's fun to be in front of thousands of people and watch a couple of hundred freaking out of their minds.

Does anyone need yet another politician caught with his pants down and money sticking in his hole?

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

I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.

When I saw that combination of grace and power, the fast and the soft, the yin and the yang, that's what I'd been looking for.

I'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.

I never liked the Beatles. I thought they were garbage.

I 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?

I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.

In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle.

The heart says what only the heart knows.

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

I love women, I think they're great.

Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.

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

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.

You won't see my parents honored on any stamps.

You're a musician: You play. That's what you do.

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.

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