Lou Reed was an American musician, singer, and songwriter. He was the lead guitarist, singer, and principal songwriter of the rock band the Velvet Underground, and his solo career spanned five decades. His work with the Velvet Underground and as a solo artist was a major influence on alternative rock, punk rock, and experimental music.

What is the most famous quote by Lou Reed ?

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

— Lou Reed

What can you learn from Lou Reed (Life Lessons)

  1. Lou Reed taught us to be authentic and to stay true to ourselves. He was not afraid to express his opinions and stand up for what he believed in, even if it was unpopular.
  2. He also showed us the importance of perseverance, as he worked hard to make his dreams a reality and never gave up.
  3. Lastly, Lou Reed showed us the power of creativity and how it can be used to make a lasting impact on the world around us.

The most simplistic Lou Reed quotes that are new and everybody is talking about

Following is a list of the best quotes, including various Lou Reed inspirational quotes, and other famous sayings by Lou Reed.

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.

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Take a walk on the wild side.

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One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

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Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful.

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Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat.

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But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

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These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.

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Experimental quotes by Lou Reed

Life's like a mayonnaise soda.

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I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.

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You do this because you like it, you think what you're making is beautiful.

And if you think it's beautiful, maybe they think it's beautiful.

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The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.

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My God is rock'n'roll.

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I take drugs just because in the 20th century in a technological age living in the city there are certain drugs you have to take just to keep yourself normal like a caveman. Just to bring yourself up or down, but to attain equilibrium you need to take certain drugs. They don't getcha high even, they just getcha normal.

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There's only X amount of time. You can do whatever you want with that time. It's your time.

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There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.

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Quotations by Lou Reed that are edgy and iconic.

Will none of the powers that be realize what Brian Wilson did with the chords.

Deftly taking from all sources, old rock, Four Freshman, he got in his records a beautiful hybrid sound - Let Him Run Wild, Don't Worry Baby, I Get Around, Fun, Fun, Fun - 'and she had fun, fun, fun 'till her daddy took her T-bird away.'

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I tried to give up drugs by drinking.

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I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.

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How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

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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.

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Underachievers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose except your fright.

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But I found tai chi when I was studying with Leung Shum, who teaches Eagle Claw and Wu Hao.

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I am bigger and stronger than ever. My Chen Taiji and health regimen has served me well all of these years, thanks to Master Ren Guang-yi. I look forward to being on stage performing, and writing more songs to connect with your hearts and spirits and the universe well into the future.

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Herpes, AIDS, the Middle East at full throttle. Better check that sausage before you put it in the waffle.

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I would like to live to a ripe old age and raise watermelons in Wyoming.

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Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.

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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.

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Well, everybody does something, some people race cars, others collect stamps, I find tai chi to be philosophically, aesthetically, physically and spiritually fascinating.

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An eye for an eye is elemental.

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That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say.

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I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.

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If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.

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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.

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I wouldn't want to hear Beethoven without beautiful bass, the cellos, the tuba. It's very important. Hip-hop has thunderous bass. And so does Beethoven. If you don't have the bass, it's like being amputated. It's like you have no legs.

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I'll tell ya, I'm a genuinely nice guy. I really am. A real nice guy. But I think I'm temperamental.

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I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it.

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Does anyone need yet another politician caught with his pants down and money sticking in his hole?

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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.

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

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

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Nothing beats 2 guitars, drum and bass.

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

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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.

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When the past makes you laugh and you can savor the magic that lets you survive your own war, you'll find that that fire is passion and there's a door up ahead - not a wall.

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They tied his arms behind his back to teach him how to swim, they put blood in his coffee and milk in his gin.

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The baby sits in front of MTV watching violent fantasies, while Dad guzzles beer with his favorite sport only to find his heroes all coked up.

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Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right.

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Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.

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