Lou Reed Quotes
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Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.
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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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You do this because you like it, you think what you're making is beautiful. And if you think it's beautiful, maybe they think it's beautiful.
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You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it...I always believed that I have something important to say and I said…
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I'm too old to do things by half
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Not too many songwriters, when they write songs go for broke. When someone does who's really good, it's astonishing. There's a reason a three-minute song…
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I love women, I think they're great.
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Please don't set me free Death means a lot me
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You know, some people got no choice, and they can never find a voice, to talk with that they can even call their own. So…
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I think it's important that people don't feel alone.
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They put the thing down your throat so you don't swallow your tongue, and they put electrodes on your head. That's what was recommended in…
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I've always believed that there's an amazing number of things you can do through a rock'n'roll song and that you can do serious writing in…
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I would like to live to a ripe old age and raise watermelons in Wyoming.
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I take drugs just because in the 20th century in a technological age living in the city there are certain drugs you have to take…
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I am bigger and stronger than ever. My Chen Taiji and health regimen has served me well all of these years, thanks to Master Ren…
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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,…
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Nothing beats 2 guitars, drum and bass.
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It's the music that kept us all intact, kept us from going crazy.
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Any human being should have a tolerance for anybody.
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Will none of the powers that be realize what Brian Wilson did with the chords. Deftly taking from all sources, old rock, Four Freshman, he…
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