Band Quote by Brian Eno Download Open image “Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.” — Brian Eno ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Band People Velvet Velvet underground
The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
My favorite model of success is when people say, 'Nobody bought that first Velvet Underground album, but everyone who did started a band.' — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
When a band becomes as truly iconic as the Velvet Underground, there will often be a box set released, overburdened with mediocre material that… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I would be happy to produce groups, like John Cale - he was in the Velvet Underground, and then he went on to produce… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
The Velvet Underground is probably the best band that's ever existed, assuredly the best American one. — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
It seemed record companies wanted bands to be creative because they didn't know how to manufacture underground music. We could do our own thing… — Hope Sandoval Copy Share Image
I do a cover of a Velvet Underground song, and they were one of the most important bands, for me. — Martin Gore Copy Share Image
I feel fortunate to have made records during an era where people actually bought music. But I have friends in struggling up-and-coming bands now… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
When we learned to play in bands, what we were covering was equal part the Velvet Underground and the Grateful Dead. That would defy… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
Everyone's talking about how no one is buying records any more, but to me it's quite logical. In the 1990s, music was so hardcore-marketed… — Robyn Copy Share Image
I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one! — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I think that's very significant that we're so attached to the idea now of - it was something I advocated for years, that you… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
If you watch any good player, they're using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They're moving… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The reason I was drawn to the Band Perry was because they have a knack for doing rollicking country music that can sound a… — Phoebe Robinson Copy Share Image
It was an important period for us, because even though we weren't a "punk band", and what became a model for a punk band,… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
There is something to be said though when you have 4 or 5 guys playing with no net, there is a sense of urgency,… — Marco Mendoza Copy Share Image
My Nirvana experience was much different than the other three guys. For me, it was really new and exciting. I was just a guy… — Pat Smear Copy Share Image
I think my music has always been a mixture, depending on whom I'm working with - what band, what musicians, what producer. — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
As you'll never hear the thing again, my boy, why not throw in a couple of brass bands? — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
I've always made sure that I tour with bands that people aren't expecting me to tour with. — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
There is more to me than just having been in the Runaways. And even though I'm really, really proud of what the band accomplished,… — Jackie Fuchs Copy Share Image
I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish.… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
I just became accustomed to being all the members of the band. That was something that was really exciting to me. — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
I guess because we're essentially a two-man band, we're attracting Wham's crowd. But Wham! are more of a businessman's band. — Curt Smith Copy Share Image
