Lou Reed Quotes - Page 8

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• Caroline says as she gets up from the floor, you can hit me all you want to, but I don't love you anymore.

  Lou Reed

  Love You, Want, Violence

  Song: Caroline Says II, Album: Berlin, 1973

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• Psychologically, it's better that I think that I'm dirt.

  Lou Reed

  Thinking, Insanity, Dirt

  Song: Downtown Dirt

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• I can't tell the difference between wrong and right, are you laughing at me?

  Lou Reed

  Differences, Laughing, Unanswered Questions

  Song: Make Up My Mind

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

  Lou Reed

  Sound, Doe, Politics

  Song: Good Evening Mr. Waldheim

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

  Lou Reed

  Sex, Giving, Lost

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

  Lou Reed

  Mother, Politics, Illegal

  Lou Reed (2008). “Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics”, p.392, Da Capo Press

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

  Lou Reed

  Philosophy

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• There are problems in these times, but none of them are mineI'm beginning to see the light

  Lou Reed

  Light, Problem

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• Kill them now, cause I need some kicks. I need some kicks, I'm getting bored.

  Lou Reed

  Art, Media, Bored

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• Why don't you swallow razor blades?

  Lou Reed

  Razors, Blades

  Song: Vicious

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• It's just a temporary thing.

  Lou Reed

  Temporary

  Song: Temporary Thing, Album: Rock and Roll Heart

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

  Lou Reed

  Music, Dream, Thinking

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• 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.

  Lou Reed

  Gay, People, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When critics ask you if you feel vindicated by other critics - I didn't like critics then, and I don't like them now. There you go. I've always been outside the mainstream, and it stayed that way.

  Lou Reed

  Way, Mainstream, Critics

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• You know, some people got no choice, and they can never find a voice, to talk with that they can even call their own. So the first thing that they see, that allows them the right to be, why they follow it, you know, it's called bad luck.

  Lou Reed

  Voice, People, Choices

  Song: Street Hassle

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

  Lou Reed

  Night, Perfect, Perfect Night

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• I don't like overdubs, never liked them.

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• As the dead rise to live, the live sink to die, the currents are deep and raging inside.

  Lou Reed

  Reality, Rage, Currents

  Song: Video Violence, Album: Mistrial

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• People didn't know certain things about me, which... I was out of creative writing class in school, Syracuse University; had a B.A. in English and wanted to write the great American novel but I also loved rock and roll. I was in bar bands all through college, playing fraternities and have to know all the songs in the top 10. That kind of thing.

  Lou Reed

  Song, School, Writing

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• I've gone out with my shotgun. This is hunting country out there. You better run.

  Lou Reed

  Running, Country, Hunting

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• 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.

  Lou Reed

  Sports, Baby, Dad

  Lou Reed (2008). “Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics”, p.296, Da Capo Press

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• Over what guilty spirit to not hear the beating, to not hear the beating, but only tears of perfect moan, only tears of perfect moan.

  Lou Reed

  Perfect, Tears, Spirit

  Lou Reed, Lorenzo Mattotti (2012). “The Raven”, p.28, Fantagraphics Books

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• Valium would have helped that bash.

  Lou Reed

  Alcohol, Drug, Valium

  Lou Reed (2008). “Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics”, p.125, Da Capo Press

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

  Lou Reed

  Philosophy, Moving, Mind

  Song: Science of the Mind, Album: The Raven

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