Lou Reed Thinking Quotations

I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.

I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.

I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.

I'll tell ya, I'm a genuinely nice guy. I really am. A real nice guy. But I think I'm temperamental.

I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.

People think that I work out but it's all t'ai chi.

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.

I don't really think about what the subject of my next album will be. I just know that I'm going to make another album.

As you practice things, you get better. I mean I've worked very hard on changing my life and taking what is good about it and trying to jettison the things I think were not good about it. I think the key word is "discipline," focus. I'm always working at it, but I'm not always successful.

Psychologically, it's better that I think that I'm dirt.

I think it's important that people don't feel alone.

I love women, I think they're great.

How could you even dream or think something of someone who is as uncommercial as I am?

But it's the things that preceded it that made that happen, and of course now someone like me thinks, well, if I can do that... then there are a lot of other things that are possible.

But it's not only: What are you going to do about touring, it's: What are you going to do with your life? Is there a point to what we do? I think there is. Making music, creating beautiful things. We have to be in love with the good and the beautiful. If we are not, then you're in a nihilistic state.

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass.

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.

You do this because you like it, you think what you're making is beautiful. And if you think it's beautiful, maybe they think it's beautiful.