Top 70 Quotes by Lou Reed

When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil Taylor song. I used to run around the Village following Ornette Coleman wherever he played.

People think that I work out but it's all t'ai chi.

Take a walk on the wild side.

Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.

I've never been super confident about anything. The work is never as good as it could be.

I have no control over the audience. I have no idea what they think. My heart's pure. I can't do anything. I really can't do anything. I don't know what goes on in the crowd.

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

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.

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.

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.