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" I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine. "
Lou Reed
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" I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any attention at all. Sometimes it's me, or a composite of me and other people. Sometimes it's not me at all. "
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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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" I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future. "
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" I've never been super confident about anything. The work is never as good as it could be. "
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" I don't like overdubs, never liked them. "
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" That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say. "
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" When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment. "
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" The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music? "
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" 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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" I wouldn't want to hear Beethoven without beautiful bass, the cellos, the tuba. It's very important. Hip-hop has thunderous bass. And so does Beethoven. If you don't have the bass, it's like being amputated. It's like you have no legs. "
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" It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print. "
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" Music was what bothered me, what interested me. "
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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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" I don't really think about what the subject of my next album will be. I just know that I'm going to make another album. "
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Next
" 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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World
" 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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" 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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Life
" I'm in this business for too long to be halfhearted about anything. "
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Business
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" I can create a vibe without saying anything, just by being in the room. "
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" 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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" There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out. "
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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 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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" I don't know anyone actually who does care what a critic says. "
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" I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music. "
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" You can't beat 2 guitars, bass, and drums. "
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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 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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