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• As you practice things, you get better. I mean I've worked very hard on changing my life and taking what is good about it and trying to jettison the things I think were not good about it. I think the key word is "discipline," focus. I'm always working at it, but I'm not always successful.

  Lou Reed

  Mean, Successful, Thinking

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• I'm too old to do things by half

  Lou Reed

  Love, Life, Family

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• The most important thing is work.

  Lou Reed

  Important, Important Things

  Song: Work

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• An eye for an eye is elemental.

  Lou Reed

  Eye, Eye For An Eye, Elementals

  Song: I Believe, Album: Songs For Drella

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• Moving on has allowed me to know who I am and to be present in all that I do. I take this forward in my work and in my personal relationships. It is a powerful program and I highly recommend it to anyone wanting to move on with their life.

  Lou Reed

  Moving On, Powerful, Who I Am

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• I wanna hear some Diana Ross, I wanna hear some Marvin Gaye. I wanna hear a song that reminds me of a better day.

  Lou Reed

  Song, Musical, Better Days

  Lou Reed (2008). “Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics”, p.408, Da Capo Press

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• Let's do what you fear most That from which you recoil But which still makes your eyes moist

  Lou Reed

  Eye, Recoil, Stills

  Song: Some Kinda Love

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• But it's the things that preceded it that made that happen, and of course now someone like me thinks, well, if I can do that... then there are a lot of other things that are possible.

  Lou Reed

  Thinking, Made, Wells

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• Please don't set me free Death means a lot me

  Lou Reed

  Mean, Please

  Song: The Blue Mask

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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.

  Lou Reed

  Beautiful, Hip Hop, Important

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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.

  Lou Reed

  Art, People, Creative

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• With Master Ren, if I'd tell him I can't do that and he'd say, yes you can, and it turns out I very much can do it.

  Lou Reed

  Yes You Can, Masters, Turns

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• The president's dead, no one can find his head, its been missing for two weeks. But no one seemed to notice it.

  Lou Reed

  Two, Missing, President

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• When you're growing up in a small town
  You know you'll grow down in a small town
  There is only one good use for a small town
  You hate it and you know you'll have to leave.

  Lou Reed

  Growing Up, Hate, Use

  Lou Reed (2008). “Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics”, p.333, Da Capo Press

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• You won't see my parents honored on any stamps.

  Lou Reed

  Family, Parent, Stamps

  Song: The Proposition, Album: Set the Twilight Reeling

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• You're a musician: You play. That's what you do.

  Lou Reed

  Play, Musician

  "Lou Reed: What I've Learned" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• I write whatever shows up. That's good enough for me. I'm part of the first generation that wants to still do original material and not tour around as an oldies act.

  Lou Reed

  Writing, Generations, Want

  Lou Reed (2015). “Lou Reed: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.84, Melville House

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• Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.

  Lou Reed

  Exclusion

  "Lou Reed dead: 14 of the Velvet Underground legend's best quotes" by James Robertson, www.mirror.co.uk. October 27, 2013.

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• Speaking in a common tongue, speaking through guitars and drums.

  Lou Reed

  Guitar, Rock And Roll, Tongue

  Lou Reed (2008). “Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics”, p.408, Da Capo Press

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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.

  Lou Reed

  Thinking, Ideas, Listening

  Lou Reed (2015). “Lou Reed: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.87, Melville House

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• What I really love is my scotch. It's the power, the power of positive drinking.

  Lou Reed

  Drinking, Love Is, Scotch

  Song: The Power of Positive Drinking, Album: Growing Up in Public

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• I'm still not sure I didn't die

  Lou Reed

  Not Sure, Stills, Dies

  Song: Nobody but You

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• I'd harbored hopes that the intelligence that once inhabited novels or films would ingest rock. I was, perhaps, wrong.

  Lou Reed

  Crazy, Rocks, Mad

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• If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.

  Lou Reed

  Three, Jazz, Chords

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• One thing I've often thought is that I never want to tell anybody else what to do. It's hard enough to figure out what I want to do.

  Lou Reed

  Want, Enough, Figures

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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