I don’t think I’m in any position to call myself a martial artist. I’m a student of the martial arts. – Lou Reed
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. – 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. – Lou Reed
I wouldn’t want to hear Beethoven without beautiful bass, the cellos, the tuba. It’s very important. Hip-hop has thunderous bass. And so does Beethoven. If you don’t have the bass, it’s like being amputated. It’s like you have no legs. – Lou Reed
In the late ’70s I started to search for the perfect sound – whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock’n’roll lifestyle. – Lou Reed
Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn’t work that way. – Lou Reed
But I’m also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but. – Lou Reed