Quotes on Velvet Underground

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

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

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' isn't a word I would use to describe my music. But there is some sadness in it -- there has to be, so that the happiness in it will matter.