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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

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Lou Reed
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: March 2
Died: 2013
Died: October 27
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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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Don't the people you're around shape the music, is that what you're saying? Everything does.
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How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?
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I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.
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You do what you love, or you get arrested.
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I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.
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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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All the people have gone to war leaving no interrogator to mind.
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I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.
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Over what guilty spirit to not hear the beating, to not hear the beating, but only tears of perfect moan, only tears of perfect moan.
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Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has.
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You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums.
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Does anyone need yet another politician caught with his pants down and money sticking in his hole?
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I'm not leaving New York. And neither is anyone else. We're here. We are quintessential Americans - we're not only American, but New York-American.
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My attitude is that you very rarely come in contact with someone of Master Ren's level, so every opportunity I could get to learn from him I wanted to do that.
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You know, when you're relaxed, you're putting it out there, and then it comes, oh, I can do that.
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To wish for the crazy times one last time and freeze it in the memory of a camera is the least a great artist can do.
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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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The currents rage so deep upon us, this is the age of video violence.
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The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.
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