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" The music business doesn't interest me anymore. "
Lou Reed
Anymore
Business
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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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Run
" You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums. "
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You
" 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 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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Music
Now
" I love Ornette Coleman. I love Don Cherry. I love the way those guys play. "
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Those
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Way
" 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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Best
Life
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" I'm a humanist. "
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Humanist
" 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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" Take a walk on the wild side. "
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Side
Take
Walk
" Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right. "
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Even
Right
Dictator
" 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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Eyes
Happy
Meditation
" I don't know anyone actually who does care what a critic says. "
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Who
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" I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen. "
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Reason
" I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine. "
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Unless
Like
" I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket. "
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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 think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego. "
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