Best Lou Reed Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.

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#3. You can't always trust your mother.

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#4. I tried to give up drugs by drinking.

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#5. 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.

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

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

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#8. It's the music that kept us all intact, kept us from going crazy.

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#9. Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.

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#10. Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful.

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

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#12. Meditation doesn't have to be complicated. What I do is about as simple as you can get. You could just count the beads, one, two, three, with your eyes closed or open, whatever makes you happy.

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#13. I learned loudness from working with Lou Reed.

Robert Wilson

#14. She never ever lost her head even when she was giving head.

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

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#16. She's my best friend, better than a dog or car.

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#17. Bodily changes take place, like the thing with the kick.

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#18. Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.

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

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#20. I wish I had a talking book that told me how to act and look, a talking book that contained keys to past and present memories

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#21. Eve kissed Able, that's how he got murdered by Cain.

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

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#23. You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums.

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#24. Things always seem to end before they start

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#25. Here's to Mulberry Jane
She made jam when she came
Somebody cut off her feet
Now jelly rolls in the street.

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

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#27. 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.

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#28. People think that I work out but it's all t'ai chi.

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#29. Why don't you swallow razor blades?

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#30. 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.

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#31. I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.

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

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

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#34. I'd breed a little liberal army in the wood, just like these redneck lunatics I see at the local bar with their tribe of mutant inbred piglets.

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