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
Human
Humans
Dreamed
Life
Waste
Smart
Education
Race
Point
Young

More quotes by Lou Reed

Image
Bodily changes take place, like the thing with the kick.
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
Meditation doesn't have to be complicated. What I do is about as simple as you can get. You could just count the beads, one, two, three, with your eyes closed or open, whatever makes you happy.
Lou Reed
Image
It's just a temporary thing.
Lou Reed
Image
I can't tell the difference between wrong and right, are you laughing at me?
Lou Reed
Image
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
Image
I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.
Lou Reed
Image
I've found that from my point of view, the Chen style contained many things that I knew on a fairly superficial level from Eagle Claw, and that had Chen elements of what seemed to me the soft in Eagle Claw.
Lou Reed
Image
The only thing constantly changing is change, and change is always changing for the worse.
Lou Reed
Image
I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.
Lou Reed
Image
It's the music that kept us all intact, kept us from going crazy.
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
I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.
Lou Reed
Image
And I feel just like Jesus' son
Lou Reed
Image
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
Image
You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it.
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 can concentrate on my art.
Lou Reed
Image
I'm too old to do things by half
Lou Reed
Image
Writhe and sway to music's pain searing with asides, caress death with a lover's touch for it shall be your bride.
Lou Reed