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Lou Reed

Lewis Allan Reed (2 March 1942 – 27 October 2013) was an influential American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. He first came to prominence as the guitarist and principal singer-songwriter of the Velvet Underground (1965–1970).

Quotes

 * My week beats your year.
 * In the liner notes of Metal Machine Music

 * Fuck Radio Ethiopia man, I'm Radio Brooklyn!
 * On his Take No Prisoners album

 * LR: "Are you political, Lou? Audience: "Yeah, are you?"  LR:"Political about what? You give me an issue, I'll give you a tissue and you can wipe my ass with it."
 * On his Take No Prisoners album

 * Nothing beats 2 guitars, drum and bass.
 * In the liner notes of New York

 * Anyone that gets to side four is dumber than I am.
 * Of his 'Metal Machine Music' double album, as quoted at BBC - collective - Lou Reed: RR Buyer's Guide (and elsewhere; please put the original here if you know it.)

 * This is the impossible level, boys. Impossible doesn't mean very difficult, very difficult is winning the Nobel Prize, impossible is eating the sun.
 * In the video game Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors, after Reed murders the player on the "Impossible" difficulty level.

 * He's probably the single most untalented person I've heard in my life. He's a two-bit pretentious academic, and he can't play rock'n'roll, because he's a loser. And that's why he dresses up funny. He's not happy with himself, and I think he's right.
 * On Frank Zappa in Uptight: The Velvet Underground Story (1996) by Victor Bockris and Gerard Malanga

 * Of course. All the best people are.
 * When asked if he was Jewish. Quoted in the Jewish Chronicle obituary, 1 November 2013, p. 31

 * It always bothers me to see people writing 'RIP' when a person dies. It just feels so insincere and like a cop-out. To me, 'RIP' is the microwave dinner of posthumous honors.
 * On death

About Reed

 * The news I feared the most, pales in comparison to the lump in my throat and the hollow in my stomach. Two kids have a chance meeting and 47 years later we fight and love the same way – losing either one is incomprehensible. No replacement value, no digital or virtual fill . . . broken now, for all time. Unlike so many with similar stories – we have the best of our fury laid out on vinyl, for the world to catch a glimpse. The laughs we shared just a few weeks ago, will forever remind me of all that was good between us. — John Cale about Reed's death

Lyrics

 * And Romeo had JulietteAnd Juliette had her RomeoI'll take Manhattan in a garbage bagWith Latin written on it that says "it's hard to give a shit these days" Manhattan's sinking like a rockInto the filthy Hudson what a shockThey wrote a book about itThey said it was like ancient Rome
 * "Romeo Had Juliet" full lyrics online

 * This room cost 2,000 dollars a monthYou can believe it man it's trueSomewhere a landlord's laughing till he wets his pantsNo one here dreams of being a doctor or a lawyer or anythingThey dream of dealing on the dirty boulevardGive me your hungry, your tired your poor I'll piss on 'emThat's what the Statue of Bigotry saysYour poor huddled masses, let's club 'em to deathAnd get it over with and just dump 'em on the boulevard
 * "Dirty Blvd."

 * You can't depend on a beginning
You can't depend on an end
You can't depend on intelligence...
You can only depend on one thing
You need a busload of faith to get by...
You can't depend on any churches
Unless there's real estate you want to buy
You can't depend on a lot of things
You need a busload of faith to get by...
You can depend on cruelty
Crudity of thought and sound...
You need a busload of faith to get by, ha
 * Busload of Faith

 * And I feel just like Jesus' son
 * "Heroin"

 * Life's like a mayonnaise soda And life's like space without room And life's like bacon and ice cream That's what life's like without you
 *  Full lyrics online

 * Candy came from out on the Island In the backroom she was everybody's darlin' But she never lost her head Even when she was giving head She says, Hey babe Take a walk on the wild side
 *  Full lyrics online
 * The title was inspired by Lou Reed being approached in 1970 for a musical based on Nelson Algren's 1956 novel A Walk on the Wild Side.

 * Candy says I've come to hate my body And all that it requires In this world . . . What do you think I'd see If I could walk away from me
 * Candy Says

 * I'll be your mirror Reflect what you are In case you don't know
 * I'll Be Your Mirror

 * When she turned blue, all the angels screamed.
 * " Run Run Run"

 * The Rally Man's patter ran on through the dawn Until we said so long to his skull Shrill yell.
 * Black Angel's Death Song

 * "Just watch," said Sheila, touching her finger to her head.
 * The Gift (written by Lou Reed, narrated by )

 * You made me forget myself; I thought I was someone else, someone good.
 * Perfect Day

 * I watched it for a little while, I like to watch things on TV
 * Satellite Of Love

 * An eye for an eye is elemental.
 * I Believe

I'm beginning to see the light
 * There are problems in these times, but none of them are mine
 * "Beginning to See the Light"

is that you've always got to wait
 * First thing you learn
 * "I'm Waiting for the Man"

 * Jesse you say Common Ground Does that include the ?
 * Good Evening Mr. Waldheim
 * Attacking Jesse Jackson's support for terrorist organisations

 * And Pontiff, pretty Pontiff Can anyone shake your hand? Or is it just that you like uniforms and someone kissing your hand
 * Good Evening Mr. Waldheim
 * Attacking the Pope for receiving ex-Nazi Kurt Waldheim

Sweet Jane
Sweet Jane (released 1970) is a song written by Lou Reed and performed by the American rock band the Velvet Underground; it appears on their fourth studio album Loaded. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked it No. 335 on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
 * Lyrics

 * Some people, they like to go out dancin'
And other people, they have to work ...
And there's even some evil mothers
Who'll tell you everything is just dirt
You know that women never really faint
That villains always blink their eyes, ooh
That children are the only ones who blush
And that life is just to die
But anyone who ever had a heart
They wouldn't turn around and break it
And anyone who ever played a part
Oh, they wouldn't turn around and hate it ...
They say Jane, Sweet Jane, oh woah, Sweet Jane, Sweet Jane
Heavenly wine and roses seem to whisper to her, hey, when she smiles
 * Lou Reed - Sweet Jane (youtube)
 * The Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane (youtube)

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Daniel Burnham

Daniel Hudson Burnham (4 September 1846 – 1 June 1912) was an American architect and urban planner.

Quotes

 * The space of time in which a great work can now be accomplished is not marvelous. Brain, muscle, materials, and the means of rapid transport are instantly at command. If one has capital and a well-considered plan, the thing does itself. But that which is wonderful and which I can scarcely believe, although I have been in the midst of it, is the noble, artistic result which has come from the work of American artists who have had only a few months' time to prepare those very designs for the great buildings of the Exposition which have actually been executed with little change from the sketches which were presented in February, 1891.
 * A statement at a dinner in New York city (25 March 1893), as quoted in Daniel H. Burnham, Architect, Planner of Cities (1921) by Charles Moore, Vol. 1, Ch. VI, p. 72-73

The Development of Cities of the Future (1910)

 * "The Development of Cities of the Future", an address to the Town Planning Conference in London, in October 1910, as quoted in "Stirred by Burnham, Democracy Champion", Chicago Record-Herald (15 October 1910); republished in "Burnham’s 'Make No Little Plans' Quote: Apocryphal No More!" bu Adam Selzer, Mysterious Chicago Tours (3 March 2019); also quoted in "A Chicago tale: Why we're happy to erase the asterisk from Daniel Burnham's 'Make no little plans*'", by The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune (6 March 2019), and previously in Daniel H. Burnham, Architect, Planner of Cities (1921) by Charles Moore, Vol. 2, Chapter XXV "Closing in 1911-1912", p. 147, where its famous closing statement is provided without sourcing, and declared to have been formulated in 1907.

To these is vitally related the future of the cities. Plenary democracies can do what we want them to do. They have full power over men, land and goods, and can always make their laws and execute their purposes. Democratic peoples, when they perceive the value of plans to bring convenience and beauty into the hearts of cities can get such plans carried out.
 * My subject is a city of the future under a Democratic government. Some very great men, and among them Herbert Spencer and Lord Macaulay, have predicted the downfall of the American democracy. Nevertheless, having firm confidence in our new mixture of bloods, our new environment, our searching publicity and our growing intelligence, I cannot doubt that the American democracy will persist. It takes far greater ability to subvert liberty now than ever before since man’s history began, and so I promise permanence to democratic institutions.

Chicago is moving practically and with determination in the matter and hopes to educate the people to demand delightfulness as a part of life and to devise ways of getting it. '''Pessimists abound and have always abounded. To them most of the big and splended things are chimerical.''' Well, in 1850, there was little street paving in the United States, and not much in London or Paris. There were no great sewerage systems, water systems, gas, electric power and light, street cars, sidewalks or other systems, but all these we have now. We do things that would make our forbears think us magicians.
 * Sir William is one of the three or four first men in Canada. He is a fair sample of the kind of people who are beginning to think and work for the realization of the new architectural and spiritual era in the great cities of the North American continent. In such men surely this splendid cause has a splendid augury. The most difficult task of all before is that of raising public interest up to the level of definite action. Even this, in my judgement, is not at all impossible.

As the water is generally pure, all that is needed is more economy in its use. Congestion is intolerable in all the great cities in the world and relief is imperative. It will be found in diverting people in other directions and in changing construction so as to carry more traffic. We may expect, in any event, double tunnels under all the business streets and the utmost use of the present street levels by extensive double-decking and many more overhead transportation lines. Some time the rush in the cities may cease, but I see no signs now of its ceasing, and meanwhile crowding must be dealt with. We need systems of passes around the congested districts. We need still more and mainly to diminish the number of people and vehicles using given areas.
 * Our city of the future will be without smoke, dust or gases from manufacturing plants, and the air will therefore be pure. The streets will be as clean as our drawing rooms today. Smoke will be thoroughly consumed, and gases liberated in manufacture will be tanked and burned. Railways will be operated electrically, all building operations will be effectually shut in to prevent the escape of dust, and horses will disappear from the streets. Out of all these things will come not only commercial economy but bodily health and spiritual joy.

 * Broadly speaking, the city of the future will not bring to its center any goods not intended for use or consumption therein. At Chicago 66% of the tonnage in and out is not for home use, but for distribution to other places. In view of this fact we designed a general freight scheems for the entire city’s use, with car yards, freight depots and warehouses combined, eight miles from the city, where all trains shall unload and reload. […] I believe that such a course would be economical both for the public service companies and the city government; certainly it would prolong the life of the street paving and eliminate congestion and a constant source of dirty and disorder. Can it be doubted that the city of the future will operate its cental street system, possibly all its streets, in this manner?

Where a town lies near water, keep all the shore for the people. Neighborhood parks are magnificent both from the standpoint of hygiene and the standpoint of moral purity. Those who grow up before the eyes of the community escape those poisonous practices that lurk in secret places.
 * Do this because of the effect of nature upon citizenship. Other things being equal, a person accustomed to living in nature has a distinct advantage all his life over the purely townbred man. Allure your city denizen to sylvan nature, for it is there he finds the balm his spirt needs.

 * Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.

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