Quote

It's the music that kept us all intact, kept us from going crazy.

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
Intact
Kept
Crazy
Music
Going

More quotes by Lou Reed

Image
As the dead rise to live, the live sink to die, the currents are deep and raging inside.
Lou Reed
Image
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
Image
I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.
Lou Reed
Image
With Master Ren, if I'd tell him I can't do that and he'd say, yes you can, and it turns out I very much can do it.
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
My week beats your year.
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
To debate political objectives, views, and goals is the most American thing conceivable.
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
Well all tai chi has the martial aspect to it, a lot of people don't know, a lot of the teachers won't show it, or they do show it but you don't really learn it, what the application is.
Lou Reed
Image
I like mindless disco... they say the lyrics are stupid and repetitious. So what's wrong with that? So is lying in the sun. Not everything has to be serious.
Lou Reed
Image
Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has.
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
I think it's important that people don't feel alone.
Lou Reed
Image
It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print.
Lou Reed
Image
Don't the people you're around shape the music, is that what you're saying? Everything does.
Lou Reed
Image
Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.
Lou Reed
Image
You do what you love, or you get arrested.
Lou Reed
Image
But I found tai chi when I was studying with Leung Shum, who teaches Eagle Claw and Wu Hao.
Lou Reed
Image
How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?
Lou Reed