Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

- Blaise Pascal

I got to see all these incredible blues players, like Jimmy Reed.

- Johnny Rivers

I played with Sam Lay, Jimmy Reed, Big Walter Horton, Big Moose Walker, and all those guys.

- Jimmy Smith

My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.

- Jimmy Smith

I love Hermes, Lanvin, Brunello Cucinelli, Reed Krakoff, Alice + Olivia and Nanette Lepore.

- Kelly Rutherford

For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.

- Lou Reed

But, I'm a big Johnny Cash and a big Lou Reed fan and a Fellini fan.

- Noah Taylor

I learned loudness from working with Lou Reed.

- Robert Wilson

Pablo Picasso, Frank Sinatra, Ernest Hemingway, Mel Gibson, Lou Reed, Norman Mailer, Vanessa Redgrave, Van Morrison - each is distinguished by controversies unrelated to his or her art; by many accounts, some of them are not nice people at all.

- Steve Erickson

My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.

- Sally Phillips

I can't think of my life without Donna Reed. She has been such an enormous influence on my life.

- Shelley Fabares

Lou Reed was a hero because he was an anti-hero.

- Tom Stoppard