Lou Reed Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

  Lou Reed

  Cities, Drug, Age

  "Lou Reed v Lester Bangs: a classic interview from the vaults". www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2011.

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• When you pass through the fire, you pass through humble.

  Lou Reed

  Humble, Fire, Adages

  Song: Magic and Loss, Album: Magic and Loss, 1992

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

  Lou Reed

  Life Is Short, Past, Thinking

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• My God is rock'n'roll.

  Lou Reed

  Rocks, Rock N Roll

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

  Lou Reed

  Believe, Survival, Stills

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

  Lou Reed

  Believe, Makeup, Reality

  "Remembering Lou Reed: 10 Quotes From A True Rock God" by Sam Parker, www.esquire.com. October 28, 2013.

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• 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.

  Lou Reed

  Rip, Writing, People

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• 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.

  Lou Reed

  Play, Trying, Joking Around

  FaceBook post by Lou Reed from Apr 27, 2012

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• 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.

  Lou Reed

  Night, Thinking, Hands

  Lou Reed (2008). “Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics”, p.12, Da Capo Press

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• An eye for an eye is elemental.

  Lou Reed

  Eye, Eye For An Eye, Elementals

  Song: I Believe, Album: Songs For Drella

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• You can't always trust your mother.

  Lou Reed

  Mother

  Song: Last Great American Whale, Album: New York

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• Some people drink to unleash their libidos, and other people drink to prop up their egos.

  Lou Reed

  People, Alcohol, Drug

  Song: The Power of Positive Drinking, Album: Growing Up in Public

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• 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.

  Lou Reed

  Song, Writing, Doe

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• I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it.

  Lou Reed

  Important, Velvet Underground, Said

  "Lou Reed dead: 14 of the Velvet Underground legend's best quotes" by James Robertson, www.mirror.co.uk. October 27, 2013.

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• The president's dead, no one can find his head, its been missing for two weeks. But no one seemed to notice it.

  Lou Reed

  Two, Missing, President

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• 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?

  Lou Reed

  Dream, Rocks, People

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• But it's the things that preceded it that made that happen, and of course now someone like me thinks, well, if I can do that... then there are a lot of other things that are possible.

  Lou Reed

  Thinking, Made, Wells

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• The most important thing is work.

  Lou Reed

  Important, Important Things

  Song: Work

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• And no kinds of love are better than others

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  Kind, Kinds Of Love

  Song: Some Kinda Love

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• 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.

  Lou Reed

  Army, Redneck, Piglet

  Song: Beginning of a Great Adventure, Album: New York

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• 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.

  Lou Reed

  Art, Hurt, Wall

  Lou Reed (2008). “Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics”, p.339, Da Capo Press

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• Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.

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  Sound, Noise, Life Is

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• High energy does not necessarily mean fast, high energy has to do with heart.

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  Heart, Mean, Energy

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• First thing you learnis that you'vealways got to wait

  Lou Reed

  Waiting, Firsts

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• I'll tell ya, I'm a genuinely nice guy. I really am. A real nice guy. But I think I'm temperamental.

  Lou Reed

  Real, Nice, Thinking

  Lou Reed (2015). “Lou Reed: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.37, Melville House

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