Lou Reed Quotes
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When the past makes you laugh and you can savor the magic that lets you survive your own war, you'll find that that fire is passion and there's a door up ahead - not a wall.
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There's only X amount of time. You can do whatever you want with that time. It's your time.
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You do what you love, or you get arrested.
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When you pass through the fire, you pass through humble.
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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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I can concentrate on my art.
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What could there be more purely bright in truth's day star?
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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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If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.
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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 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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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 don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.
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I've gone out with my shotgun. This is hunting country out there. You better run.
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Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.
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Things always seem to end before they start
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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 a rock song if you can somehow do it without losing the beat.
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I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it.
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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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But I found tai chi when I was studying with Leung Shum, who teaches Eagle Claw and Wu Hao.
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Any human being should have a tolerance for anybody.
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I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.
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I like mindless disco... they say the lyrics are stupid and repetitious. So what's wrong with that? So is lying in the sun. Not everything has to be serious.
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Music was what bothered me, what interested me.
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Take a walk on the wild side.
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When you're growing up in a small town You know you'll grow down in a small town There is only one good use for a small town You hate it and you know you'll have to leave.
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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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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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To wish for the crazy times one last time and freeze it in the memory of a camera is the least a great artist can do.
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I can create a vibe without saying anything, just by being in the room.
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