Lou Reed Quotes - Page 6

It's interesting to have a conglomeration of people that covers the strata from A to Z... There's a certain element of the audience that's intellectually oriented, into the lyrics... then there's another element of the audience that's into a sex trip. I'm into both of them.

The rich son waits for his father to die, the poor just drink and cry.

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.

Music is an amazing thing. I don't know if we really think about it the same way we consider a painting an amazing thing. I mean, a painting is, in quotes, imaginary. There is nothing on the canvas when you start; and writing a song, there is nothing there when you start.

I don't really think about what the subject of my next album will be. I just know that I'm going to make another album.

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.

You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it.

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

Herpes, AIDS, the Middle East at full throttle. Better check that sausage before you put it in the waffle.

I had started also studying because I wanted to learn more about power and fighting.

I have no control over the audience. I have no idea what they think. My heart's pure. I can't do anything. I really can't do anything. I don't know what goes on in the crowd.

But I found tai chi when I was studying with Leung Shum, who teaches Eagle Claw and Wu Hao.

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

I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.

But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.

If someone teaches you alignment and - I'm not a tai chi expert by any stretch - so interviewing me about tai chi is kind of the cart before the horse - but just from my point of view as a student, it's simply that Master Ren can show you the relationship of power, stance and form.

When critics ask you if you feel vindicated by other critics - I didn't like critics then, and I don't like them now. There you go. I've always been outside the mainstream, and it stayed that way.

I've found that from my point of view, the Chen style contained many things that I knew on a fairly superficial level from Eagle Claw, and that had Chen elements of what seemed to me the soft in Eagle Claw.

I don't know what goes on in the crowd. I've had them show up and throw beer cans at me. I caused riots in most of the major cities.

I try very much, whenever I do projects, whatever it is, there's only one thing on my mind, only one thing.

I've gone out with my shotgun. This is hunting country out there. You better run.

I mean, there are peripheral things I do, I do photography, I write plays, I have books published, but that's neither here not there.

People didn't know certain things about me, which... I was out of creative writing class in school, Syracuse University; had a B.A. in English and wanted to write the great American novel but I also loved rock and roll. I was in bar bands all through college, playing fraternities and have to know all the songs in the top 10. That kind of thing.

I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.