When I was a kid, my first favorite song was probably Lou Reed's 'Walk on the Wild Side. — Michael Rapaport Copy Share Image
I love Lou Reed because his voice sounds like your inner conscience. — Christine and the Queens Copy Share Image
Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed… — Walter Becker Copy Share Image
The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong. — Arto Lindsay Copy Share Image
The way Lou Reed wrote and sang about drugs and sex, about the people around him — it was so matter-of-fact, — Julian Casablancas Copy Share Image
For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
When I was 13, Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground made more sense to me than anything else. — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
My friend Lou Reed came to the end of his song. So very sad.But hey, Lou, you'll always take a walk on… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I don't really worship the album 'Transformer.' It's not the best thing that Lou Reed has done. — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
I do think it's probably true to a certain extent that you tend to sing music that fits your voice. If you're… — Teddy Thompson Copy Share Image
'Pitchfork' said something like, 'Michael Imperioli wrote a book that sounds like Lou Reed fan fiction,' which maybe it is. It's fiction,… — Michael Imperioli Copy Share Image
There are beauty icons that I can never be like, sorta like a Gena Rowlands - I'll never have that look. I… — Natasha Lyonne Copy Share Image
Usually when I write lyrics I try to read a lot and listen to a lot of other stuff. Some of my… — Andrew VanWyngarden Copy Share Image
I have been listening a lot to The Carpenters and Neil Diamond, Elton John, and thinking, like, 'God, it'd be great to… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I fetishised New York City. It was the land of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, it… — Moby Copy Share Image
I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider. For me,… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of Lou Reed, and I do a lot of talking through songs. It's more effective with my vocal… — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
I try to make clothes the way Lou Reed does music, with minimal chord changes. It's about giving everything I make a… — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
“I remember the ecstasy of first going to a nightclub wearing eyeliner. Drenched in hairspray and glitter, dancing to Lou Reed records.… — Guy Mankowski Copy Share Image
Most of the time when I have met artists who have meant a lot to me, the experience has been well above… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Rock & Roll is so great, people should start dying for it. You don't understand. The music gave you back the beat… — Legs McNeil Copy Share Image
“The old sound was alcoholic. The tradition was finally broken. The music is sex and drugs and happy. And happy is the… — Legs McNeil Copy Share Image
“I don't like categorizing stuff, but women's roles all through history have been to act as hierophant or someone who's guarded the… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
For a while, the gay thing seemed like such a big deal. But now, I don't think it is. It's just a… — Gale Harold Copy Share Image
I never met Lou Reed, never was one of those journalists lucky enough to be the object of his derision, contempt, condescension,… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
Lou Reed's music has been in the lives of millions of people all over the world for decades. He had a truly… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Lou Reed was an ideal figure to me. He was bisexual, like me, and seemed to inhabit an ambiguous middle place on… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
'Some Kind of Monster' is a challenge, and 'Through the Never' is an extension of that. Even the album we made with… — Robert Trujillo Copy Share Image
I think listening to a lot of Lou Reed when I was a teenager is what encouraged me to just sing however… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
“Lou Reed drove Honda scooters these days, and I was a hell of a lot closer to the wild side than him.” — Warren Moore Copy Share Image
It's a miracle that David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are actually still alive today, given how hard they lived. — Mick Rock Copy Share Image
Sweet Jane' is my favorite song by Lou Reed the writer, at least the Velvet Underground Lou Reed. — Scarface Copy Share Image
Is it a different New York since Lou Reed died? It’s been a different New York since I saw him in his… — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
If I was to meet Lou Reed or Bob Dylan, I would be totally helpless. Writers and musicians make me feel completely… — Toby Stephens Copy Share Image
Lou Reed's spirit and the way he did things was so important. Him and his music mean so much to me as… — Jim James Copy Share Image
