Quotes for All
No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Underground song. Ezra Koenig
Everybody gets a tag. If you listen to a Velvet Underground record, you don’t think, ‘Godfathers of Punk.’ You just think, ‘This sounds great.’ The tags are there in order to help try to sell something by giving it a name that’s going to stick in somebody’s memory. But it doesn’t describe it. So ‘depressing’ … Read more
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. Devendra Banhart
I always wanted to move to New York because of the Velvet Underground, because of the picture that they painted of New York City. Devendra Banhart
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. Courtney Love
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band. Brian Eno
The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band Brian Eno
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.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson