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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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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 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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To debate political objectives, views, and goals is the most American thing conceivable.
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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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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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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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The music business doesn't interest me anymore.
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The currents rage so deep upon us, this is the age of video violence.
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I can concentrate on my art.
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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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If someone teaches you alignment and - I'm not a tai chi expert by any stretch - so interviewing me about tai chi is kind of the cart before the horse - but just from my point of view as a student, it's simply that Master Ren can show you the relationship of power, stance and form.
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I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.
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And I feel just like Jesus' son
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Well all tai chi has the martial aspect to it, a lot of people don't know, a lot of the teachers won't show it, or they do show it but you don't really learn it, what the application is.
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I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass.
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Speaking in a common tongue, speaking through guitars and drums.
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When I saw that combination of grace and power, the fast and the soft, the yin and the yang, that's what I'd been looking for.
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It's the music that kept us all intact, kept us from going crazy.
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Caroline says as she gets up from the floor, you can hit me all you want to, but I don't love you anymore.
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Let's do what you fear most That from which you recoil But which still makes your eyes moist
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