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" It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print. "
Lou Reed
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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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" 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'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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" Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right. "
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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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" Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music. "
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" I am very emotionally affected by sound. Sounds are the inexplicable... There is a sound you hear in your head, it's your nerves, or your blood running. "
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" One of my rules is: Never listen to your old stuff. "
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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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Want
" I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen. "
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" Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Meditation doesn't have to be complicated. What I do is about as simple as you can get. You could just count the beads, one, two, three, with your eyes closed or open, whatever makes you happy. "
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" 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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" 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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