A Quote by Lou Reed

I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be. — © Lou Reed
I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.
I don't want to sound egotistical, but I'm egotistical to an extent.
Egotistical people are not pretty. We all know that, I'm sure everybody knows an egotistical person someplace.
You may be modest and un-egotistical in your life; I'm quite ordinary. But I play big egotistical parts.
I want to write. I want to direct. I want to produce - I want to inhabit what I think it means to fully be an artist.
When you are writing for an artist you are trying to get into that artist's point of view. What does that artist want to say? What do they care about? And musically, you want to show off that artist.
Oh, believe me. The greatest egos are those which are too egotistical to show just how egotistical they are.
Folks say I'm egotistical. Hell, I don't even know what it means.
To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.
Any artist, when he goes in to record, should have the feeling that any song he records can be a hit. This may sound egotistical, but it makes sense.
I wouldn’t want to be labelled unless it was something much broader and inclusive such as an ecological artist or a visionary artist, but there’s a constraint in the definition of a feminist artist, you’re an artist and you’re a feminist.
Men are much more egotistical. But that means women can accept criticism and improve easier than men can.
Being an artist doesn't just mean you have a song. That doesn't make you an artist. The word 'artist' means so many different things, and I feel like to be a real one, you really have to do it all. The people that I think of as artists - Tyler the Creator, Childish Gambino, Kanye West - are doing the most.
I want to be an artist artist, a real artist. I don't just want to do this for temporary money.
Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.
I don't want to feel like the cool kid in the crowd who doesn't want to do what the artist's saying. I want to be so in awe of the artist that I'm literally jumping up and down, even if I've got on brand new Louboutins.
There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite. I want to hear that artist; I don't want to hear me - that's the last thing I want to hear. There are a lot of technical studio things I've learned or figured out, and I feel like I could use those things to help other people with what they're doing.
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