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Lou Reed
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: March 2
Died: 2013
Died: October 27
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Writhe and sway to music's pain searing with asides, caress death with a lover's touch for it shall be your bride.
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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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If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.
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I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.
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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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I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass.
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As you practice things, you get better. I mean I've worked very hard on changing my life and taking what is good about it and trying to jettison the things I think were not good about it. I think the key word is discipline, focus. I'm always working at it, but I'm not always successful.
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Any human being should have a tolerance for anybody.
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I would like to live to a ripe old age and raise watermelons in Wyoming.
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You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums.
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I like mindless disco... they say the lyrics are stupid and repetitious. So what's wrong with that? So is lying in the sun. Not everything has to be serious.
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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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Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.
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I'm too old to do things by half
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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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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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Life's like a mayonnaise soda.
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Why don't you swallow razor blades?
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The rich son waits for his father to die, the poor just drink and cry.
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And I feel just like Jesus' son
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