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Lou Reed
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: March 2
Died: 2013
Died: October 27
Actor
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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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It's the music that kept us all intact, kept us from going crazy.
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One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.
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To debate political objectives, views, and goals is the most American thing conceivable.
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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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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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If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.
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It always bothers me to see people writing RIP when a person dies. It just feels so insincere and like a cop out. To me, RIP is the microwave dinner of posthumous honours.
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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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The rich son waits for his father to die, the poor just drink and cry.
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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'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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But it's not only: What are you going to do about touring, it's: What are you going to do with your life? Is there a point to what we do? I think there is. Making music, creating beautiful things. We have to be in love with the good and the beautiful. If we are not, then you're in a nihilistic state.
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It's just a temporary thing.
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I mean, there are peripheral things I do, I do photography, I write plays, I have books published, but that's neither here not there.
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I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.
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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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My attitude is that you very rarely come in contact with someone of Master Ren's level, so every opportunity I could get to learn from him I wanted to do that.
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Life's like a mayonnaise soda.
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Psychologically, it's better that I think that I'm dirt.
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