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Lou Reed
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: March 2
Died: 2013
Died: October 27
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Honey, I'm a cocksucker, what are you?
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You know, when you're relaxed, you're putting it out there, and then it comes, oh, I can do that.
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There are problems in these times, but none of them are mineI'm beginning to see the light
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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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Psychologically, it's better that I think that I'm dirt.
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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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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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With Master Ren, if I'd tell him I can't do that and he'd say, yes you can, and it turns out I very much can do it.
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Over what guilty spirit to not hear the beating, to not hear the beating, but only tears of perfect moan, only tears of perfect moan.
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I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.
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Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.
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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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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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The only thing constantly changing is change, and change is always changing for the worse.
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I'm too old to do things by half
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You won't see my parents honored on any stamps.
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I try very much, whenever I do projects, whatever it is, there's only one thing on my mind, only one thing.
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That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say.
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