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
art thinking students
I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.
grace saws yang
When I saw that combination of grace and power, the fast and the soft, the yin and the yang, that's what I'd been looking for.
figures cult wells
I've become completely well adjusted to being a cult figure.
race car people
Well, everybody does something, some people race cars, others collect stamps, I find tai chi to be philosophically, aesthetically, physically and spiritually fascinating.
beer cities goes-on
I don't know what goes on in the crowd. I've had them show up and throw beer cans at me. I caused riots in most of the major cities.
challenges should notion
Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has.
music crazy going-crazy
It's the music that kept us all intact, kept us from going crazy.
wyoming age raises
I would like to live to a ripe old age and raise watermelons in Wyoming.
voice people choices
You know, some people got no choice, and they can never find a voice, to talk with that they can even call their own. So the first thing that they see, that allows them the right to be, why they follow it, you know, it’s called bad luck..
important important-things
The most important thing is work.
night perfect perfect-night
Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful.
perfect tears spirit
Over what guilty spirit to not hear the beating, to not hear the beating, but only tears of perfect moan, only tears of perfect moan.
sports baby dad
The baby sits in front of MTV watching violent fantasies, while Dad guzzles beer with his favorite sport only to find his heroes all coked up.
alcohol drug necks
I shot a vein in my neck and coughed up a quaalude.