If someone teaches you alignment and – I’m not a tai chi expert by any stretch – so interviewing me about tai chi is kind of the cart before the horse – but just from my point of view as a student, it’s simply that Master Ren can show you the relationship of power, stance and form.

— Lou Reed

Lou Reed Quotes

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

— Lou Reed

It’s just a temporary thing.

— Lou Reed

Please don’t set me free Death means a lot me.

— Lou Reed

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

I think it’s important that people don’t feel alone.

— Lou Reed

I think it’s pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.

— Lou Reed

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

— Lou Reed

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

— Lou Reed

I never liked the Beatles. I thought they were garbage.

— Lou Reed

Research, research, research. It means everything.

— Lou Reed

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

One thing I’ve often thought is that I never want to tell anybody else what to do. It’s hard enough to figure out what I want to do.

— Lou Reed

To debate political objectives, views, and goals is the most American thing conceivable.

— Lou Reed

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

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

I write whatever shows up. That’s good enough for me. I’m part of the first generation that wants to still do original material and not tour around as an oldies act.

— Lou Reed

As you practice things, you get better. I mean I’ve worked very hard on changing my life and taking what is good about it and trying to jettison the things I think were not good about it. I think the key word is “discipline,” focus. I’m always working at it, but I’m not always successful.

— Lou Reed

It’s fun to be in a small club and to be able to look somebody right in the eye and watch them just freak. Then it’s fun to be in front of thousands of people and watch a couple of hundred freaking out of their minds.

— Lou Reed

Just a perfect day, problems all left alone.

— Lou Reed

She’s my best friend, better than a dog or car.

— Lou Reed
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