Lou Reed

"I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future."

"I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego."

"How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?"

"Rock & roll is so great, people should start dying for it. You don't understand. The music gave you back your beat so you could dream... The people just have to die for the music. People are dying for everything else, so why not for music? Die for it. Isn't it pretty? Wouldn't you die for something pretty?"

"The myriad choices of his fate Set themselves out upon a plate For him to choose What had he to lose"