Lou Reed Quotes

The only thing constantly changing is change, and change is always changing for the worse.

Honey, I'm a cocksucker, what are you?

Families that live out in the suburbs often make each other cry.

It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print.

Writhe and sway to music's pain searing with asides, caress death with a lover's touch for it shall be your bride.

The injuries we do in kind are visited upon us often. In the science of the mind, trying hard to move a shadow.

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

Senator, it has been reported that you have had illegal congress with your mother.

Here comes Jesse Jackson, he talks of common ground. Does that common ground include me, or is it just a sound?

I've never been super confident about anything. The work is never as good as it could be.

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

How could you even dream or think something of someone who is as uncommercial as I am?

I dreamed that I was young and smart, and it was not a waste. I dreamed that there was a point of life, and to the human race.

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.

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

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

You can't always trust your mother.

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 don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.

But it's not only: What are you going to do about touring, it's: What are you going to do with your life? Is there a point to what we do? I think there is. Making music, creating beautiful things. We have to be in love with the good and the beautiful. If we are not, then you're in a nihilistic state.

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

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

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

And no kinds of love are better than others

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.

I would like to live to a ripe old age and raise watermelons in Wyoming.

Rock & roll is so great, people should start dying for it. You don't understand. The music gave you back your beat so you could dream...The people just have to die for the music. People are dying for everything else, so why not for music? Die for it. Isn't it pretty? Wouldn't you die for something pretty?

I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.

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

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

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

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?

The gay people know where I'm at. Straight people may not know where I'm at, but they find it kind of interesting when they show up and see what is sitting around them.

I don't know anyone actually who does care what a critic says.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

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

Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right.

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

When he beat my mother it made me so mad.

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.

Well all tai chi has the martial aspect to it, a lot of people don't know, a lot of the teachers won't show it, or they do show it but you don't really learn it, what the application is.

Research, research, research. It means everything.

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

Teach them about anger, the sin that comes with dawning. Teach them about flowers, and the beauty of forgiveness.