Quote

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

Lou Reed

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Lou Reed
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: March 2
Died: 2013
Died: October 27
Actor
Composer
Film Director
Guitarist
Musician
Photographer
Poet
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Brookdale Hospital
Lewis Allen Reed
Lewis Allan Reed
Egotistical
Means
Artist
Mean

More quotes by Lou Reed

Image
That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say.
Lou Reed
Image
Eve kissed Able, that's how he got murdered by Cain.
Lou Reed
Image
When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment.
Lou Reed
Image
Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.
Lou Reed
Image
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
Lou Reed
Image
The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music?
Lou Reed
Image
You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums.
Lou Reed
Image
It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print.
Lou Reed
Image
All I want to do, is write rock and roll that you could listen to as you got older, and it wouldn't lose anything it would be timeless, in the subject matter and the literacy of the lyrics.
Lou Reed
Image
Any human being should have a tolerance for anybody.
Lou Reed
Image
I've made love to my mother, killed my father, and my brother. What am I to do?
Lou Reed
Image
It's the music that kept us all intact, kept us from going crazy.
Lou Reed
Image
Bodily changes take place, like the thing with the kick.
Lou Reed
Image
The most important thing is work.
Lou Reed
Image
I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.
Lou Reed
Image
I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.
Lou Reed
Image
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
Image
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
Image
She never ever lost her head even when she was giving head.
Lou Reed
Image
I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.
Lou Reed