Top 70 Quotes by Lou Reed

I don't mind a repetitive chorus; I mind repetitive verse. I mean, it's the same amount of space. Why would you have only three diamonds if you can have six?

Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has.

You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums.

When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment.

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

You're a musician: You play. That's what you do.

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.

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

The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music?

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.