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• It's interesting to have a conglomeration of people that covers the strata from A to Z... There's a certain element of the audience that's intellectually oriented, into the lyrics... then there's another element of the audience that's into a sex trip. I'm into both of them.

  Lou Reed

  Sex, People, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm not leaving New York. And neither is anyone else. We're here. We are quintessential Americans - we're not only American, but New York-American.

  Lou Reed

  New York, Leaving, Quintessential

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• Plucked her eyebrows on the way, shaved her legs and then he was a she. She said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side.

  Lou Reed

  Eyebrows, Wild Side, Hey

  "Walk on the Wild Side" (song) (1972)

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• Music is an amazing thing. I don't know if we really think about it the same way we consider a painting an amazing thing. I mean, a painting is, in quotes, imaginary. There is nothing on the canvas when you start; and writing a song, there is nothing there when you start.

  Lou Reed

  Song, Writing, Mean

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't really think about what the subject of my next album will be. I just know that I'm going to make another album.

  Lou Reed

  Thinking, Albums, Next

  "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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• I can concentrate on my art.

  Lou Reed

  Art, I Can

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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.

  Lou Reed

  Song, Fun, Real

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• You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it.

  Lou Reed

  Songwriting, Ask Me, Asks

  "Interviewing Lou Reed: Not a perfect day" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2003.

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• I love Ornette Coleman. I love Don Cherry. I love the way those guys play.

  Lou Reed

  Play, Guy, Way

  "Interviewing Lou Reed: Not a perfect day" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2003.

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• Herpes, AIDS, the Middle East at full throttle. Better check that sausage before you put it in the waffle.

  Lou Reed

  Reality, Middle East, Sausage

  Song: The Original Wrapper

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• I had started also studying because I wanted to learn more about power and fighting.

  Lou Reed

  Fighting, Study, Wanted

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• I have no control over the audience. I have no idea what they think. My heart's pure. I can't do anything. I really can't do anything. I don't know what goes on in the crowd.

  Lou Reed

  Heart, Thinking, Ideas

  Lou Reed (2015). “Lou Reed: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.86, Melville House

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• But I found tai chi when I was studying with Leung Shum, who teaches Eagle Claw and Wu Hao.

  Lou Reed

  Eagles, Study, Found

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• People can vote for who ever they want. That doesn't mean I have to go near them.

  Lou Reed

  Mean, People, Want

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• I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.

  Lou Reed

  Art, Thinking, Students

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• If someone teaches you alignment and - I'm not a tai chi expert by any stretch - so interviewing me about tai chi is kind of the cart before the horse - but just from my point of view as a student, it's simply that Master Ren can show you the relationship of power, stance and form.

  Lou Reed

  Horse, Views, Experts

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• I've found that from my point of view, the Chen style contained many things that I knew on a fairly superficial level from Eagle Claw, and that had Chen elements of what seemed to me the soft in Eagle Claw.

  Lou Reed

  Eagles, Views, Style

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• Well all tai chi has the martial aspect to it, a lot of people don't know, a lot of the teachers won't show it, or they do show it but you don't really learn it, what the application is.

  Lou Reed

  Teacher, People, Aspect

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• My attitude is that you very rarely come in contact with someone of Master Ren's level, so every opportunity I could get to learn from him I wanted to do that.

  Lou Reed

  Attitude, Opportunity, Levels

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• When critics ask you if you feel vindicated by other critics - I didn't like critics then, and I don't like them now. There you go. I've always been outside the mainstream, and it stayed that way.

  Lou Reed

  Way, Mainstream, Critics

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• People think that I work out but it's all t'ai chi.

  Lou Reed

  Thinking, People, Work Out

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Lou Reed

  Art, Modern, Choreography

  "Interviewing Lou Reed: Not a perfect day" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2003.

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• I wish I had a talking book that told me how to act and look, a talking book that contained keys to past and present memories

  Lou Reed

  Memories, Book, Past

  Song: Talking Book

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• Honey, I'm a cocksucker, what are you?

  Lou Reed

  Honey

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• There were lots of things that I recognized from my experience with Eagle Claw and Wu Hao, and here was the combination of the whole kit and kaboodle, the whole tamale in one.

  Lou Reed

  Eagles, Tamales, Combination

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