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" I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket. "
Lou Reed
Act
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Because
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" I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future. "
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" 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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" People think that I work out but it's all t'ai chi. "
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" I don't mind a repetitive chorus; I mind repetitive verse. I mean, it's the same amount of space. Why would you have only three diamonds if you can have six? "
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" The first generation of CDs sounded terrible. Any chance to remaster would make the music sound better than what was already out there. "
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Better
" The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music? "
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" Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music. "
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" One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz. "
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" I'm in this business for too long to be halfhearted about anything. "
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Business
Long
" Take a walk on the wild side. "
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Take
Walk
" I'll tell ya, I'm a genuinely nice guy. I really am. A real nice guy. But I think I'm temperamental. "
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" I don't know what goes on in the crowd. I've had them show up and throw beer cans at me. I caused riots in most of the major cities. "
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" When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil Taylor song. I used to run around the Village following Ornette Coleman wherever he played. "
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Village
Run
" I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be. "
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Egotistical
I Can
" I've never been super confident about anything. The work is never as good as it could be. "
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Work
Anything
" My God is rock'n'roll. "
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" 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
" Music was what bothered me, what interested me. "
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Bothered
Music
" The most important part of my religion is to play guitar. "
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Important
Guitar
Religion
" I can concentrate on my art. "
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Art
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" Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful. "
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Makes
Forceful
" 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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Level
" There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out. "
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Loss
Magic
" It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print. "
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Your
Still
Print
" 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
" I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine. "
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Unless
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" I tried to give up drugs by drinking. "
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