Reed Song Quotes

#1. And one there was, a dreamer born,
Who, with a mission to fulfill,
Had left the Muses' haunts to turn
The crank of an opinion-mill,
Making his rustic reed of song
A weapon in the war with wrong, ...
A Tent on the Beach

John Greenleaf Whittier

#2. Ignazio Michele Vitale," I say playfully, intentionally flubbing the middle name, just to get more of a rise out of him. "I can't believe you were singing a song from the eighties."
"You were seeing things.

J.M. Darhower

#3. One Galileo in two thousand years is enough.

Pope Pius XII

#4. When Mom had her first nervous breakdown, she said she had a vision of Christ coming to her in the living room.

Spalding Gray

#5. I wanna hear some Diana Ross, I wanna hear some Marvin Gaye. I wanna hear a song that reminds me of a better day.

Lou Reed

#6. When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil Taylor song. I used to run around the Village following Ornette Coleman wherever he played.

Lou Reed

#7. The song of the world is all of love.

Myrtle Reed

#8. 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.

Lou Reed

#9. What's interesting about songs where the writer is genuinely in love with words is that it's easy to read the lyrics like a poem.

Ann Reed

#10. When I began writing, it was a cosmic thing: Inspiration! Wham! Short spurts of time when I felt out of touch with reality, temporarily insane and the result: a song!

Ann Reed

#11. ZZ Top did get a chance to play with Lightnin' Hopkins and Jimmy Reed, there's still that one, single song we just can't shake ... J.B. Hutto's "Combination Boogie".

Billy Gibbons

#12. COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power.

Ambrose Bierce

#13. When Toots finally could breathe again and the blood returned to his brain, he recalled that he had not passed or been passed by Jackie at any time in the race. Toots never used foul language but he came close that night. Jackie paid.

Audrey Meadows

#14. 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.

Lou Reed

#15. My friend Lou Reed came to the end of his song. So very sad.But hey, Lou, you'll always take a walk on the wild side. Always a perfect day.

Salman Rushdie

#16. Love is a powerful force. It's also much more potent than evil," she emphasized the word 'evil' and gently patted my hand. "Always remember that. You will know what to do. Listen to your heart and decide what you are willing to sacrifice, my dear Pasha.

Kristen Day

#17. If cows and horses had hands and could draw, cows would draw gods that look like cows and horses would draw gods that look like horses.

Xenophanes

#18. In conflict, straightforward actions generally lead to engagement, surprising actions generally lead to victory.

Sun Tzu

#19. When I was a kid, my first favorite song was probably Lou Reed's 'Walk on the Wild Side.'

Michael Rapaport

#20. Joel Chandler Harris, who created a multi billion dollar industry, everything from his books, to Disney's "Song of the South" based upon the Uncle Remus stories. He got his start by transcribing the stories of slave Informants. I'm sure that none them got a dime.

Ishmael Reed

#21. I've always believed that there's an amazing number of things you can do through a rock'n'roll song and that you can do serious writing in a rock song if you can somehow do it without losing the beat,

Lou Reed

#22. For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.

Lou Reed