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You're a musician: You play. That's what you do.

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Lou Reed
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: March 2
Died: 2013
Died: October 27
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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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The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music?
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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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