Albums Quote by Brian Eno

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

— Brian Eno

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

I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and…

— Lester Bangs

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

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

— Martin Gore

The Velvet Underground is probably the best band that's ever existed, assuredly the best American one.

— Ezra Furman

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

Well, you know, back then there wasn't many albums, it was the singles. You sold singles.

— Mel Tillis

When you start out as a band, you stake your claim and you go for it. And there's a part of you that dreams…

— Edward Kowalczyk

If you're fortunate to get a first album that sells 10 million you have nowhere to go but down. I'm just going to be…

— Nelly

Poison is one of the first, if not the first, truly independent bands to sell 3 million copies of our first record. It was…

— Bret Michaels

It would have been better if the first album sold well, the second sold better and the third really took off. Maybe that would've…

— Jani Lane