Lou Reed Quotes (31 quotes) | Quotes of famous people

Walk on the Wild Side Full lyrics online http://www.slangcity.com/songs/lou_reed.htm
The title was inspired by Lou Reed being approached in 1970 for a musical based on Nelson Algren's 1956 novel A Walk on the Wild Side.
Lyrics

“Of course. All the best people are.”

Lou Reed

When asked if he was Jewish. Quoted in the Jewish Chronicle obituary, 1 November 2013, p. 31

People

“You made me forget myself; I thought I was someone else, someone good.”

Lou Reed

Perfect Day
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Forgetting

“It always bothers me to see people writing 'RIP' when a person dies. It just feels so insincere and like a cop-out. To me, 'RIP' is the microwave dinner of posthumous honors.”

Lou Reed

Attributed posthumously in social media, but actually a hoax originating from Twitter "Hoax Lou Reed quote fools Twitter (and most of the rest of the internet)", http://en4news.com/2013/10/28/hoax-lou-reed-quote-fools-twitter-and-most-of-the-rest-of-the-internet/ EN4 News, 28 October 2013
Misattributed

People , Feeling , Personality

“And Pontiff, pretty Pontiff
Can anyone shake your hand?
Or is it just that you like uniforms
and someone kissing your hand”

Lou Reed

Good Evening Mr. Waldheim
Attacking the Pope for receiving ex-Nazi Kurt Waldheim
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Kiss

“Jesse you say Common Ground
Does that include the PLO?”

Lou Reed

Good Evening Mr. Waldheim http://www.mp3lyrics.org/l/lou-reed/good-evening-mr-waldheim/
Attacking Jesse Jackson's support for terrorist organisations
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“Anyone that gets to side four is dumber than I am.”

Lou Reed

Of his 'Metal Machine Music' double album, as quoted at BBC - collective - Lou Reed: RR Buyer's Guide http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A2580725 (and elsewhere; please put the original here if you know it.)

“The Rally Man's patter ran on through the dawn
Until we said so long to his skull
Shrill yell.”

Lou Reed

Black Angel's Death Song
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“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”

Lou Reed

Candy Says
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Hate , World , Thinking

“I watched it for a little while, I like to watch things on TV”

Lou Reed

Satellite Of Love
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“My week beats your year.”

Lou Reed

In the liner notes of Metal Machine Music

“Just watch me now.”

Lou Reed

Sweet Jane
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“An eye for an eye is elemental.”

Lou Reed

I Believe
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“The news I feared the most, pales in comparison to the lump in my throat and the hollow in my stomach. Two kids have a chance meeting and 47 years later we fight and love the same way – losing either one is incomprehensible. No replacement value, no digital or virtual fill... broken now, for all time. Unlike so many with similar stories – we have the best of our fury laid out on vinyl, for the world to catch a glimpse. The laughs we shared just a few weeks ago, will forever remind me of all that was good between us.”

Lou Reed

John Cale about Reed's death http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/john-cale-mourns-lou-reed-20131028

Chance , Time , Fight , Way

“And I feel just like Jesus' son”

Lou Reed

"Heroin"
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Feeling

“Impossible doesn't mean very difficult, very difficult is winning the Nobel Prize, impossible is eating the sun.”

Lou Reed

In the video game Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors, after Reed murders the player on the "Impossible" difficulty level.
Source: Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors - The Impossible Level https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWlbzdaJJ_s

Sun

“And Romeo had Juliette
And Juliette had her Romeo
I'll take Manhattan in a garbage bag
With Latin written on it that says
"it's hard to give a shit these days"
Manhattan's sinking like a rock
Into the filthy Hudson what a shock
They wrote a book about it
They said it was like ancient Rome”

Lou Reed

"Romeo Had Juliet" full lyrics online https://genius.com/Lou-reed-romeo-had-juliette-lyrics
Lyrics

Books