Quote

I dreamed that I was young and smart, and it was not a waste. I dreamed that there was a point of life, and to the human race.

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
Life
Waste
Smart
Education
Race
Point
Young
Human
Humans
Dreamed

More quotes by Lou Reed

Image
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
Image
The music business doesn't interest me anymore.
Lou Reed
Image
I don't mind a repetitive chorus I mind repetitive verse. I mean, it's the same amount of space. Why would you have only three diamonds if you can have six?
Lou Reed
Image
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
Image
My attitude is that you very rarely come in contact with someone of Master Ren's level, so every opportunity I could get to learn from him I wanted to do that.
Lou Reed
Image
All the people have gone to war leaving no interrogator to mind.
Lou Reed
Image
I'm tearing down Route 80 East, the sun's on my right side. I'm drunk, but my vision's good.
Lou Reed
Image
I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.
Lou Reed
Image
And no kinds of love are better than others
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
You do what you love, or you get arrested.
Lou Reed
Image
It's the music that kept us all intact, kept us from going crazy.
Lou Reed
Image
To debate political objectives, views, and goals is the most American thing conceivable.
Lou Reed
Image
I love Ornette Coleman. I love Don Cherry. I love the way those guys play.
Lou Reed
Image
Moving on has allowed me to know who I am and to be present in all that I do. I take this forward in my work and in my personal relationships. It is a powerful program and I highly recommend it to anyone wanting to move on with their life.
Lou Reed
Image
Let's do what you fear most That from which you recoil But which still makes your eyes moist
Lou Reed
Image
Valium would have helped that bash.
Lou Reed
Image
I'd harbored hopes that the intelligence that once inhabited novels or films would ingest rock. I was, perhaps, wrong.
Lou Reed
Image
You won't see my parents honored on any stamps.
Lou Reed
Image
But I found tai chi when I was studying with Leung Shum, who teaches Eagle Claw and Wu Hao.
Lou Reed