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" I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it. "
Lou Reed
Said
Something
Always
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" People think that I work out but it's all t'ai chi. "
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" Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way. "
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" Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music. "
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Sound
" If it has more than three chords, it's jazz. "
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" I don't like overdubs, never liked them. "
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Never
" One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz. "
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Pushing
Three
Two
" When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment. "
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Get
Possible
Moment
" 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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" I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts. "
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Artist
Myself
Arts
" Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful. "
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Perfect
Makes
Forceful
" I can create a vibe without saying anything, just by being in the room. "
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Saying
Without
Create
" The music business doesn't interest me anymore. "
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Anymore
Business
Music
" I've become completely well adjusted to being a cult figure. "
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Being
Become
" You're a musician: You play. That's what you do. "
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You
Musician
Play
" I'm too old to do things by half. "
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Old
Half
Things
" I've never been super confident about anything. The work is never as good as it could be. "
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Good
Work
Anything
" I was a product of Andy Warhol's Factory. All I did was sit there and observe these incredibly talented and creative people who were continually making art, and it was impossible not to be affected by that. "
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Impossible
Sit
People
" I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums. "
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Own
My Own
World
" I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs. "
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Real
Good
Goal
" I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me. "
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Me
Said
Trying
" But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but. "
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Doubt
Know
Great
" Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right. "
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Even
Right
Dictator
" The most important part of my religion is to play guitar. "
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Important
Guitar
Religion
" It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print. "
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Your
Still
Print
" How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality? "
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Vanity
Reality
Artist
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Space
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