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Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has.

Lou Reed

I wanna hear some Diana Ross, I wanna hear some Marvin Gaye. I wanna hear a song that reminds me of a better day.
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Better Day Musical Song
I think it’s important that people don’t feel alone.
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Important People Think
I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it.
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Important Said Underground Velvet
They tied his arms behind his back to teach him how to swim, they put blood in his coffee and milk in his gin.
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Blood Coffee Evil
Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.
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Funny Life Music
Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor, that’s what the Statue of Bigotry says. Your poor huddled masses, let’s just club them to death, and get it over with.
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Giving Huddled Reality Tired
Electricity comes from other planets.
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Electricity Nation Planet Welcome
What could there be more purely bright in truth’s day star?
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Honesty Star Truth
Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has.
LOU REED

Challenge Notion Speaker
When you pass through the fire, you pass through humble.
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Adage Fire Humble
When the past makes you laugh and you can savor the magic that lets you survive your own war, you’ll find that that fire is passion and there’s a door up ahead – not a wall.
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Passion Wall War
Let’s do what you fear most That from which you recoil But which still makes your eyes moist
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Eye Recoil Still
All I want to do, is write rock and roll that you could listen to as you got older, and it wouldn’t lose anything; it would be timeless, in the subject matter and the literacy of the lyrics.
LOU REED

Anything Feeling Rock And Roll Writing
Why don’t you swallow razor blades?
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Blade Razor Swallow
I love women, I think they’re great.
LOU REED

Love Think Woman
To wish for the crazy times one last time and freeze it in the memory of a camera is the least a great artist can do.
LOU REED

Artist Crazy Memories

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