A biography for Lou Reedhasn’t been written yet.
“אתה יודע, כשהייתי בחור קטן בתיכון, תאמין או לא, רציתי לשחק פוטבול בשביל המאמן.”
“כל כך קר באלסקה.”
“ורומיאו רצה את יוליה.”
“תנו לי את הרעבים שלכם, את העייפים שלכם, את העניים שלכם, אני אשתין עליהם. זה מה שפסל האפלייה אומר.”
“צפיתי בזה לזמן קצר, אני אוהב לראות דברים בטלוויזיה.”
“אתה הולך לקצור בדיוק את מה שזרעת.”
“הו, כזה יום מושלם, גרמת לי לשכוח מי אני, חשבתי שאני מישהו אחר, מישהו טוב.”
“לך בצד הפראי.”
“Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.”
“In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle.”
“These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.”
“I am very emotionally affected by sound. Sounds are the inexplicable... There is a sound you hear in your head, it's your nerves, or your blood running.”
“I love Ornette Coleman. I love Don Cherry. I love the way those guys play.”
“I've never been super confident about anything. The work is never as good as it could be.”
“For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.”
“I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.”
“Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.”
“I can concentrate on my art.”
“I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.”
“I'm a humanist.”