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

Lou Reed

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Lou Reed
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: March 2
Died: 2013
Died: October 27
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Jealousy endlessly eats through my mind, and jealously endlessly makes me be unkind.
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I'd harbored hopes that the intelligence that once inhabited novels or films would ingest rock. I was, perhaps, wrong.
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You do what you love, or you get arrested.
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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'm still not sure I didn't die
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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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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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I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.
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My God is rock'n'roll. It's an obscure power that can change your life. The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.
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I have no control over the audience. I have no idea what they think. My heart's pure. I can't do anything. I really can't do anything. I don't know what goes on in the crowd.
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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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The currents rage so deep upon us, this is the age of video violence.
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