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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.

— Lou Reed On Frank Zappa in Uptight: The Velvet Underground Story (1996)

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