Lou Reed
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.Collection: Photography
Looking through the viewfinder for me is like being in a movie theater. That's what I like about it.Collection: Theater
Bodily changes take place, like the thing with the kick.Collection: Kicks
Don't the people you're around shape the music, is that what you're saying? Everything does.Collection: People
The baby sits in front of MTV watching violent fantasies, while Dad guzzles beer with his favorite sport only to find his heroes all coked up.Collection: Sports
Jealousy endlessly eats through my mind, and jealously endlessly makes me be unkind.Collection: Revenge
When he beat my mother it made me so mad.Collection: Family
Teach them about anger, the sin that comes with dawning. Teach them about flowers, and the beauty of forgiveness.Collection: Education
Writhe and sway to music's pain searing with asides, caress death with a lover's touch for it shall be your bride.Collection: Pain
Caroline says as she gets up from the floor, you can hit me all you want to, but I don't love you anymore.Collection: Love You
Psychologically, it's better that I think that I'm dirt.Collection: Thinking
I can't tell the difference between wrong and right, are you laughing at me?Collection: Differences
Here comes Jesse Jackson, he talks of common ground. Does that common ground include me, or is it just a sound?Collection: Sound
She never ever lost her head even when she was giving head.Collection: Sex
Senator, it has been reported that you have had illegal congress with your mother.Collection: Mother
I shot a vein in my neck and coughed up a quaalude.Collection: Alcohol
The only thing constantly changing is change, and change is always changing for the worse.Collection: Philosophy
The injuries we do in kind are visited upon us often. In the science of the mind, trying hard to move a shadow.Collection: Philosophy
Eve kissed Able, that's how he got murdered by Cain.Collection: Religious
I've made love to my mother, killed my father, and my brother. What am I to do?Collection: Family
And I feel just like Jesus' sonCollection: Jesus
The currents rage so deep upon us, this is the age of video violence.Collection: Art
There are problems in these times, but none of them are mineI'm beginning to see the lightCollection: Light
Kill them now, cause I need some kicks. I need some kicks, I'm getting bored.Collection: Art
The sickness of the mother runs on through the girl, leaving her small and helpless. Liquor flies through her brain with the force of a gun, leaving her running in circles.Collection: Family
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.Collection: Cities
You do what you love, or you get arrested.Collection: Arrested
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.Collection: Rip
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.Collection: Song
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.Collection: Art
High energy does not necessarily mean fast, high energy has to do with heart.Collection: Heart
And no kinds of love are better than othersCollection: Kind
First thing you learnis that you'vealways got to waitCollection: Waiting
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?Collection: Dream
I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass.Collection: Thinking
They put the thing down your throat so you don't swallow your tongue, and they put electrodes on your head. That's what was recommended in Rockland State Hospital to discourage homosexual feelings. The effect is that you lose your memory and become a vegetable. You can't read a book because you get to page 17 and have to go right back to page one again.Collection: Memories
You can't always trust your mother.Collection: Mother
I think it's important that people don't feel alone.Collection: Thinking
All I want to do, is write rock and roll that you could listen to as you got older, and it wouldn't lose anything; it would be timeless, in the subject matter and the literacy of the lyrics.Collection: Writing
I am bigger and stronger than ever. My Chen Taiji and health regimen has served me well all of these years, thanks to Master Ren Guang-yi. I look forward to being on stage performing, and writing more songs to connect with your hearts and spirits and the universe well into the future.Collection: Song
They tied his arms behind his back to teach him how to swim, they put blood in his coffee and milk in his gin.Collection: Coffee
You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it...I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it. That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say. ... I don't like overdubs, never liked them. ... The music business doesn't interest me anymore...Don't the people you're around shape the music, is that what you're saying? Everything does. ... 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.Collection: Believe
I like mindless disco... they say the lyrics are stupid and repetitious. So what's wrong with that? So is lying in the sun. Not everything has to be serious.Collection: Lying
Will none of the powers that be realize what Brian Wilson did with the chords. Deftly taking from all sources, old rock, Four Freshman, he got in his records a beautiful hybrid sound - Let Him Run Wild, Don't Worry Baby, I Get Around, Fun, Fun, Fun - 'and she had fun, fun, fun 'till her daddy took her T-bird away.'Collection: 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.Collection: Night
Nothing beats 2 guitars, drum and bass.Collection: Guitar
Well, everybody does something, some people race cars, others collect stamps, I find tai chi to be philosophically, aesthetically, physically and spiritually fascinating.Collection: Race
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.Collection: Night
I'm tearing down Route 80 East, the sun's on my right side. I'm drunk, but my vision's good.Collection: Order