Lou Reed quotes:

Send

I learned loudness from working with Lou Reed. -- Robert Wilson
Lou Reed was a hero because he was an anti-hero. -- Tom Stoppard
But, I'm a big Johnny Cash and a big Lou Reed fan and a Fellini fan. -- Noah Taylor
The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong. -- Arto Lindsay
It's a miracle that David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are actually still alive today, given how hard they lived. -- Mick Rock
If I was to meet Lou Reed or Bob Dylan, I would be totally helpless. Writers and musicians make me feel completely starstruck. -- Toby Stephens
Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs. -- Stephen Malkmus
I do think it's probably true to a certain extent that you tend to sing music that fits your voice. If you're Lou Reed, you're unlikely to become a country singer. -- Teddy Thompson
I have total respect for the self-contained rock artist. Whether you're dealing with Jerry Garcia or Lou Reed or Patti Smith or a Whitney or an Aretha, they know what they want with their career. -- Clive Davis
People said that way back in the early days I was probably one of the first rappers; the reason is that I couldn't sing, so I had to talk! Lou Reed was probably the one who started it all. -- Alan Vega
There are beauty icons that I can never be like, sorta like a Gena Rowlands - I'll never have that look. I love Giulietta Masina, the great Fellini actress. But I'm probably more Seymour Cassel. Or somewhere between Lou Reed and Nora Ephron? -- Natasha Lyonne
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. -- Lou Reed
When I was a kid, my first favorite song was probably Lou Reed's 'Walk on the Wild Side. -- Michael Rapaport
When I was a kid, my first favorite song was probably Lou Reed's 'Walk on the Wild Side.' -- Michael Rapaport
--
I think listening to a lot of Lou Reed when I was a teenager is what encouraged me to just sing however felt good to me. -- John Darnielle
Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also a band it turns out. -- Ron Currie Jr.
Lou Reed is the most important definitive writer in modern rock. Not because of the stuff that he does, but the direction that he will take it. -- David Bowie
--
My friend Lou Reed came to the end of his song. So very sad.But hey, Lou, you'll always take a walk on the wild side. Always a perfect day. -- Salman Rushdie
Lou Reed's music has been in the lives of millions of people all over the world for decades. He had a truly universal presence and was respected by musicians across all genres. -- Henry Rollins
Usually when I write lyrics I try to read a lot and listen to a lot of other stuff. Some of my favourite lyricists are like Lou Reed, kind of the classics - Bob Dylan and stuff like that. -- Andrew VanWyngarden
If you want to see that human story unfold, if you want to understand that only the unexpected life is worth a damn, spend some time with 46 years of Lou Reed's work: music that leaped and then looked. Safety is for the godless and the faithless. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
When I was growing up, I fetishised New York City. It was the land of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, it was where Leonard Cohen wrote 'Chelsea Hotel', it was CBGBs and all the punk rock clubs. Artists and musicians lived there, and it was cheap and dangerous. -- Moby
I have been listening a lot to The Carpenters and Neil Diamond, Elton John, and thinking, like, 'God, it'd be great to write a sort of subversive, alternative ballad,' like Lou Reed does so well with 'Perfect Day.' And I really loved 'Video Games' - at the time, it hadn't really got as big, but it's a classic song; you can't deny it. -- Bat for Lashes

Send