Lou Reed Reality Quotations

I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

Herpes, AIDS, the Middle East at full throttle. Better check that sausage before you put it in the waffle.

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

Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor, that's what the Statue of Bigotry says. Your poor huddled masses, let's just club them to death, and get it over with.