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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
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Brookdale Hospital
Lewis Allen Reed
Lewis Allan Reed
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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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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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It's the music that kept us all intact, kept us from going crazy.
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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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I try very much, whenever I do projects, whatever it is, there's only one thing on my mind, only one thing.
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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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I've never been super confident about anything. The work is never as good as it could be.
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I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.
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The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.
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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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You won't see my parents honored on any stamps.
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You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it.
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When he beat my mother it made me so mad.
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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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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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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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All I want to do, is write rock and roll that you could listen to as you got older, and it wouldn't lose anything it would be timeless, in the subject matter and the literacy of the lyrics.
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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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I can't tell the difference between wrong and right, are you laughing at me?
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