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Lou Reed
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: March 2
Died: 2013
Died: October 27
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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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Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful.
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The currents rage so deep upon us, this is the age of video violence.
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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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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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As the dead rise to live, the live sink to die, the currents are deep and raging inside.
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I like druggy downtown kids who spray paint walls and trains. I like their lack of training, their primitive technique. I think it hurts you, when you stay too long in school.
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You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it.
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Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.
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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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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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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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If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.
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I'd harbored hopes that the intelligence that once inhabited novels or films would ingest rock. I was, perhaps, wrong.
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I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.
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Bodily changes take place, like the thing with the kick.
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I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass.
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I'm still not sure I didn't die
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Let's do what you fear most That from which you recoil But which still makes your eyes moist
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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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