Lou Reed Quotes

I wouldn't want to hear Beethoven without beautiful bass, the cellos, the tuba. It's very important. Hip-hop has thunderous bass. And so does Beethoven. If you don't have the bass, it's like being amputated. It's like you have no legs.

Lou Reed

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 2, 1942 - October 27, 2013

Topics

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We live in a very funny world, and it's easier for me as a single man to say I don't like children, because that puts a lot of salacious tabloid people off the hunt.

Jimmy Savile

FunnyLiveChildrenManPeopleMe

I have a call to speak, to write, to do sort of deep-heart surgery in people's lives.

John Eldredge

PeopleSpeakWriteCallSurgery

What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?

John Major

ConflictHappensScottishSupreme

If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up.

Maurice Sendak

LifeWorkFriendLiveChildrenMe

We now have poured in an enormous amount of resources into cancer. The National Cancer Institute Project, you know, runs about $5 billion a year. That's a large amount of money, but let's not be grandiose about the amount of money we're actually spending on a problem that is attacking us at the most fundamental level of the human species.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

MoneyProblemYearYouKnowNow

I class myself with Rin Tin Tin. People in the Depression wanted something to cheer them up, and they fell in love with a dog and a little girl.

Shirley Temple

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Acting can be very solitary, even if you're in a scene with someone else, because you worry about your own performance and if you look good.

Masi Oka

GoodPerformanceSomeoneWorryLook

I didn't work for a couple of years after the Oscar because everybody kept offering me bad versions of Lynda Dummar.

Mary Steenburgen

WorkMeBadYearsBecauseOffering

People are looking for a leader independent of powerful, wealthy special interests that always push to the front of the line.

Martin O'Malley

LeaderPeopleLookingPushPowerful

The combination of Ponzi's huge personality and the enormous if brief success of his scheme, combined with the tremendous publicity which surrounded it, is ultimately what attached his name to it.

Mitchell Zuckoff

SuccessPersonalityNameSurrounded

We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked... not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable.

Liv Ullmann

GoodPeopleFreeYouTalkNeed

My goal is to connect the young teachers to the old, to reignite their sense of struggle.

Jonathan Kozol

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