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If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.

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Lou Reed
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: March 2
Died: 2013
Died: October 27
Actor
Composer
Film Director
Guitarist
Musician
Photographer
Poet
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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Brookdale Hospital
Lewis Allen Reed
Lewis Allan Reed
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Jazz
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Jealousy endlessly eats through my mind, and jealously endlessly makes me be unkind.
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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 still not sure I didn't die
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I am bigger and stronger than ever. My Chen Taiji and health regimen has served me well all of these years, thanks to Master Ren Guang-yi. I look forward to being on stage performing, and writing more songs to connect with your hearts and spirits and the universe well into the future.
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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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As you practice things, you get better. I mean I've worked very hard on changing my life and taking what is good about it and trying to jettison the things I think were not good about it. I think the key word is discipline, focus. I'm always working at it, but I'm not always successful.
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She never ever lost her head even when she was giving head.
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I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any attention at all.
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I dreamed that I was young and smart, and it was not a waste. I dreamed that there was a point of life, and to the human race.
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That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say.
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Speaking in a common tongue, speaking through guitars and drums.
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