Top Reed Quotes
Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.
Stephen Malkmus
To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a sort. It's really an ancient vibration.
Steve Lacy
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Blaise Pascal
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
George Henry Lewes
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
Kahlil Gibran
All Reed Quotes
Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.
Stephen Malkmus 
59% of people like this quote
To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a sort. It's really an ancient vibration.
Steve Lacy 
57% of people like this quote
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Blaise Pascal 
53% of people like this quote
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
George Henry Lewes 
53% of people like this quote
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
Kahlil Gibran 
51% of people like this quote
For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim.
Xenophon 
51% of people like this quote
My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.
Jimmy Smith 
50% of people like this quote
The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong.
Arto Lindsay 
50% of people like this quote
But, I'm a big Johnny Cash and a big Lou Reed fan and a Fellini fan.
Noah Taylor 
49% of people like this quote
I played with Sam Lay, Jimmy Reed, Big Walter Horton, Big Moose Walker, and all those guys.
Jimmy Smith 
49% of people like this quote

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