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Let's do what you fear most That from which you recoil But which still makes your eyes moist
Lou Reed
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Lou Reed
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: March 2
Died: 2013
Died: October 27
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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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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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Speaking in a common tongue, speaking through guitars and drums.
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You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it.
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I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.
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I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.
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I've never been super confident about anything. The work is never as good as it could be.
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It's fun to be in a small club and to be able to look somebody right in the eye and watch them just freak. Then it's fun to be in front of thousands of people and watch a couple of hundred freaking out of their minds.
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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 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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