Lou Reed Quotes

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Underachievers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose except your fright.

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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.

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Teach them about anger, the sin that comes with dawning. Teach them about flowers, and the beauty of forgiveness.

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Caroline says as she gets up from the floor, you can hit me all you want to, but I don't love you anymore.

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Some people drink to unleash their libidos, and other people drink to prop up their egos.

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Herpes, AIDS, the Middle East at full throttle. Better check that sausage before you put it in the waffle.

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The injuries we do in kind are visited upon us often. In the science of the mind, trying hard to move a shadow.

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For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.

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

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When the past makes you laugh and you can savor the magic that lets you survive your own war, you'll find that that fire is passion and there's a door up ahead - not a wall.

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Here comes Jesse Jackson, he talks of common ground. Does that common ground include me, or is it just a sound?

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Does anyone need yet another politician caught with his pants down and money sticking in his hole?

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Families that live out in the suburbs often make each other cry.

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As the dead rise to live, the live sink to die, the currents are deep and raging inside.

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Speaking in a common tongue, speaking through guitars and drums.

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What I really love is my scotch. It's the power, the power of positive drinking.

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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.

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The only thing constantly changing is change, and change is always changing for the worse.

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The rich son waits for his father to die, the poor just drink and cry.

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I can't tell the difference between wrong and right, are you laughing at me?

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Plucked her eyebrows on the way, shaved her legs and then he was a she. She said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side.

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And what costume shall the poor girl wear To all tomorrow's parties A hand-me-down dress from who knows where To all tomorrow's parties

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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.

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When you think the night has seen your mind, That inside your twisted and unkind, Let me stand to show that you are blind. Please put down you hands cause I see you. I'll be you mirror.

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I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

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I'm waiting for my man
Twenty-six dollars in my hand
Up to Lexington 125
Feeling sick and dirty more dead than alive
I'm waiting for my man.

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I have no control over the audience. I have no idea what they think. My heart's pure. I can't do anything. I really can't do anything. I don't know what goes on in the crowd.

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It's such a perfect day
I'm glad I spent it with you.

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Anyone that gets to side four is dumber than I am.

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When you're growing up in a small town
You know you'll grow down in a small town
There is only one good use for a small town
You hate it and you know you'll have to leave.

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