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Lou Reed
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: March 2
Died: 2013
Died: October 27
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What I really love is my scotch. It's the power, the power of positive drinking.
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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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Does anyone need yet another politician caught with his pants down and money sticking in his hole?
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When he beat my mother it made me so mad.
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I can't tell the difference between wrong and right, are you laughing at me?
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The gay people know where I'm at. Straight people may not know where I'm at, but they find it kind of interesting when they show up and see what is sitting around them.
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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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Some people drink to unleash their libidos, and other people drink to prop up their egos.
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Meditation doesn't have to be complicated. What I do is about as simple as you can get. You could just count the beads, one, two, three, with your eyes closed or open, whatever makes you happy.
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I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.
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And no kinds of love are better than others
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The only thing constantly changing is change, and change is always changing for the worse.
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Honey, I'm a cocksucker, what are you?
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I've made love to my mother, killed my father, and my brother. What am I to do?
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The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.
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I wish I had a talking book that told me how to act and look, a talking book that contained keys to past and present memories
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I don't mind a repetitive chorus I mind repetitive verse. I mean, it's the same amount of space. Why would you have only three diamonds if you can have six?
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People can vote for who ever they want. That doesn't mean I have to go near them.
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There are problems in these times, but none of them are mineI'm beginning to see the light
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Jealousy endlessly eats through my mind, and jealously endlessly makes me be unkind.
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