Top 205 Quotes & Sayings by Lou Reed - Page 4

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

Writhe and sway to music's pain searing with asides, caress death with a lover's touch for it shall be your bride.

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

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

Why don't you swallow razor blades?

The sickness of the mother runs on through the girl, leaving her small and helpless. Liquor flies through her brain with the force of a gun, leaving her running in circles.

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

When he beat my mother it made me so mad.

Kill them now, cause I need some kicks. I need some kicks, I'm getting bored.

I've made love to my mother, killed my father, and my brother. What am I to do?

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

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

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

I dreamed that I was young and smart, and it was not a waste. I dreamed that there was a point of life, and to the human race.

It's just a temporary thing.

I've gone out with my shotgun. This is hunting country out there. You better run.

She never ever lost her head even when she was giving head.

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

I would like to live to a ripe old age and raise watermelons in Wyoming.

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

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

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

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.

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

And I feel just like Jesus' son