Top 70 Quotes by Lou Reed

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 don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.

I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.

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

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

I don't like overdubs, never liked them.

I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.

Music was what bothered me, what interested me.

I'm too old to do things by half.

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