Lou Reed
Lou Reed
Lewis Allan "Lou" Reedwas an American musician, singer, and songwriter. He was the guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of the Velvet Underground, and his solo career spanned five decades...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth2 March 1942
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
cities drug age
I take drugs just because in the 20th century in a technological age living in the city there are certain drugs you have to take just to keep yourself normal like a caveman. Just to bring yourself up or down, but to attain equilibrium you need to take certain drugs. They don't getcha high even, they just getcha normal.
love life family
These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.
play trying joking-around
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.
nice real thinking
I'll tell ya, I'm a genuinely nice guy. I really am. A real nice guy. But I think I'm temperamental.
night journey college
Sometimes, you've got to be in a place. You're just another guy. You can just blend in. I live out in the wilds of nowhere, out in Jersey. Even there, there's sometimes problems. College students like journey out there and show up at 11 o'clock at night, on my porch, looking into the door not saying anything. My wife and I are sitting there; it's really creepy.
philosophy mayonnaise soda
Life's like a mayonnaise soda.
grief adversity loss
There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.
funny life music
Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.
night perfect doubt
But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.
sex interesting people
It's interesting to have a conglomeration of people that covers the strata from A to Z... There's a certain element of the audience that's intellectually oriented, into the lyrics... then there's another element of the audience that's into a sex trip. I'm into both of them.
giving-up drinking giving
I tried to give up drugs by drinking.
tired reality giving
Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor, that's what the Statue of Bigotry says. Your poor huddled masses, let's just club them to death, and get it over with.
mean artist want
I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.
song heart writing
I am bigger and stronger than ever. My Chen Taiji and health regimen has served me well all of these years, thanks to Master Ren Guang-yi. I look forward to being on stage performing, and writing more songs to connect with your hearts and spirits and the universe well into the future.