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" There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out. "
Lou Reed
Things
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Magic
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" I can create a vibe without saying anything, just by being in the room. "
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" One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz. "
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" You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums. "
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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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Reality
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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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Trying
" The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music? "
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Dying
Why Not
Why
" For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about. "
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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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Doubt
Know
Great
" I'm too old to do things by half. "
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Old
Half
Things
" If it has more than three chords, it's jazz. "
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Jazz
More
Chords
" Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful. "
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Perfect
Makes
Forceful
" 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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Music
Generation
Better
" You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it. "
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Ask
Explain
Lyrics
" These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible. "
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Nice
Rough
Possible
" I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen. "
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Going
Think
Reason
" Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony. "
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Life
Like
Pony
" I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego. "
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Ego
Just
Think
" 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've become completely well adjusted to being a cult figure. "
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Figure
Being
Become
" You're a musician: You play. That's what you do. "
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You
Musician
Play
" 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. "
Lou Reed
Radio
Village
Run
" I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother. "
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Makeup
Dressing
Believe
" You can't beat 2 guitars, bass, and drums. "
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You
Drums
Guitars
" 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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I Am
You
Head
" Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things. "
Lou Reed
Me
Much
Music
" Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music. "
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Noise
Life
Sound
" I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future. "
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Life
Future
Look
" My God is rock'n'roll. "
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God
" 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
" Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat. "
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Night
Energy
You