Velvet Underground Quotes

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One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band

I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.

I do a cover of a Velvet Underground song, and they were one of the most important bands, for me.

I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.

I knew about things like Iggy Pop and The Velvet Underground, weirdly, before I knew about David Bowie. I didn't know what David Bowie was, when I was a kid. I thought he was like Visage.

I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it.

I like their darkness but I also like the pop-side of the Velvet Underground.

As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it.

It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print.

I grew up in the '90s. I listened to a lot of The Clash, Velvet Underground and Roxy Music. I wasn't into Boyzone, or anything.

Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.

I always wanted to move to New York because of the Velvet Underground, because of the picture that they painted of New York City.

I don't know anyone actually who does care what a critic says.

The best New York in the world is driving down the [Pacific Coast Highway] listening to the Velvet Underground. That's the best time I've ever been to New York.

No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Underground song.