Lou Reed is an influential American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. He first came to prominence as the guitarist and principal singer-songwriter of The Velvet Underground (1965-1973).

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• My week beats your year.
  • In the liner notes of Metal Machine Music

• Fuck Radio Ethiopia man, I'm Radio Brooklyn!
  • On his Take No Prisoners album

• LR: "Are you political, Lou? Audience: "Yeah, are you?" LR:"Political about what? You give me an issue, I'll give you a tissue and you can wipe my ass with it."
  • On his Take No Prisoners album

• Nothing beats 2 guitars, drum and bass.
  • In the liner notes of New York

• Anyone that gets to side four is dumber than I am.
  • Of his 'Metal Machine Music' double album, as quoted at BBC - collective - Lou Reed: RR Buyer's Guide (and elsewhere; please put the original here if you know it.)
  • Unsourced comment about the same album: "no one is supposed to be able to do a thing like that and survive."

• He's probably the single most untalented person I've heard in my life. He's a two-bit pretentious academic, and he can't play rock'n'roll, because he's a loser. And that's why he dresses up funny. He's not happy with himself, and I think he's right.
  • On Frank Zappa in Uptight: The Velvet Underground Story (1996) by Victor Bockris and Gerard Malanga

• The Bush administration, they and all the other Republicans and CIA before us got us into this mess we're now in, and it's their duty since the naïve and easily strong right manipulative people elected them that they got us out of it. History in America we always have these old fashioned conservatives who use war as a profit and send a whole generation of young men to murder other poor people. Have you seen Fahrenheit 9/11? Watch it, there's an interesting scene where Bush thinks and waits seven minutes before acting against 9/11. Don't pay attention to the fact it's biased or "propaganda", just see what's going on in the documentary and notice a man like Michael Moore from a place like Flint has been researching and is trying to open our eyes. And as for Bush, is he a terrorist? Figure out, his daddy and Reagan helped out Bin Laden and a lot of radical anti-commies and we still don't know why Bin Laden attacked us, Bush had dinner with Bin Laden's brother and his family visted us, I think that explains enough. As for Kerry I hope he wins but he's not strong enough to take on Bush by himself.
  • In an interview with Ketnet.

• A royal hall was made for art and queens but not for rock'n' roll. A theater was made for plays and so on but not for rock'n'roll. Outside was made for the weather but not rock'n' roll. If we really want to save music let alone rock'n'roll then go to those techno dance clubs, I mean they have all these loud-ass speakers, everyone is always there partying, and so that's how rock is saved from unwanted capitalistic corporation music. And also if all those metal, grunge, rock, and hey even those gangstas want to play then why not start off like the Beatles in cafes, pubs and bars instead of MTV?
  • In an interview with Ketnet.

Lyrics

• Some people like to go out dancing
  Other people they have to work
  There's even some evil mothers
  They'll tell you that everything is just dirt
  That women never really faint
  Or that villians always blink their eyes
  Or that children are the only ones who blush
  And that life is just to die
  
  But anyone who ever had a heart
  They wouldn't turn around and break it
  And anyone who ever played a part
  They wouldn't turn around and hate it

• Just watch me now.
  • Sweet Jane

• And I feel just like Jesus' son
  • "Heroin"

• Life's like a mayonnaise soda
  And life's like space without room
  And life's like bacon and ice cream
  That's what life's like without you
  • What's Good Full lyrics online

• Candy came from out on the Island
  In the backroom she was everybody's darlin'
  But she never lost her head
  Even when she was giving head
  She says, Hey babe
  Take a walk on the wild side
  • Walk on the Wild Side Full lyrics online

• Candy says
  I've come to hate my body
  And all that it requires
  In this world
  . . .
  What do you think I'd see
  If I could walk away from me
  
  • Candy Says

• I'll be your mirror
  Reflect what you are
  In case you don't know
  • I'll Be Your Mirror

• When she turned blue, all the angels screamed.
  • " Run Run Run"

• The Rally Man's patter ran on through the dawn
  Until we said so long to his skull
  Shrill yell.
  • Black Angel's Death Song

• "Just watch," said Sheila, touching her finger to her head.
  • The Gift (written by Lou Reed, narrated by John Cale)

• You made me forget myself; I thought I was someone else, someone good.
  • Perfect Day

• I watched it for a little while, I like to watch things on TV
  • Satellite Of Love

• An eye for an eye is elemental.
  • I Believe

There are problems in these times, but none of them are mine
I'm beginning to see the light

• • "Beginning to See the Light"