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Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.
Lou Reed
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Lou Reed
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: March 2
Died: 2013
Died: October 27
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But it's the things that preceded it that made that happen, and of course now someone like me thinks, well, if I can do that... then there are a lot of other things that are possible.
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Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.
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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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I think it's important that people don't feel alone.
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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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Why don't you swallow razor blades?
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I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.
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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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One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into 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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I've found that from my point of view, the Chen style contained many things that I knew on a fairly superficial level from Eagle Claw, and that had Chen elements of what seemed to me the soft in Eagle Claw.
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When he beat my mother it made me so mad.
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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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I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.
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The music business doesn't interest me anymore.
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You won't see my parents honored on any stamps.
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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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