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Lou Reed Inspirational Quotes (117)

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When critics ask you if you feel vindicated by other critics - I didn't like critics then, and I don't like them now. There you go. I've always been outside the mainstream, and it stayed that way.
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Teach them about anger, the sin that comes with dawning. Teach them about flowers, and the beauty of forgiveness.
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I'm still not sure I didn't die
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I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.
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I've become completely well adjusted to being a cult figure.
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I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.
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But it's the things that preceded it that made that happen, and of course now someone like me thinks, well, if I can do that... then there are a lot of other things that are possible.
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Writhe and sway to music's pain searing with asides, caress death with a lover's touch for it shall be your bride.
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As the dead rise to live, the live sink to die, the currents are deep and raging inside.
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I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.
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I'll tell ya, I'm a genuinely nice guy. I really am. A real nice guy. But I think I'm temperamental.
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In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle.
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I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.
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The rich son waits for his father to die, the poor just drink and cry.
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The gay people know where I'm at. Straight people may not know where I'm at, but they find it kind of interesting when they show up and see what is sitting around them.
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But it's not only: What are you going to do about touring, it's: What are you going to do with your life? Is there a point to what we do? I think there is. Making music, creating beautiful things. We have to be in love with the good and the beautiful. If we are not, then you're in a nihilistic state.
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The most important thing is work.
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The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.
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I'm tearing down Route 80 East, the sun's on my right side. I'm drunk, but my vision's good.
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It's fun to be in a small club and to be able to look somebody right in the eye and watch them just freak. Then it's fun to be in front of thousands of people and watch a couple of hundred freaking out of their minds.
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I can concentrate on my art.
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But I found tai chi when I was studying with Leung Shum, who teaches Eagle Claw and Wu Hao.
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I wanna hear some Diana Ross, I wanna hear some Marvin Gaye. I wanna hear a song that reminds me of a better day.
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I like druggy downtown kids who spray paint walls and trains. I like their lack of training, their primitive technique. I think it hurts you, when you stay too long in school.
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