Door Quote by Ezra Furman

The way Lou Reed wrote and sang about drugs and sex, about the people around him — it was so matter-of-fact,

— Julian Casablancas

Lou Reed's music has been in the lives of millions of people all over the world for decades. He had a truly universal presence…

— Henry Rollins

I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who…

— Courtney Love

Each one of us had a little story to tell and each recording was based on that. Lou played all of the music but…

— Phil Harris

“I had grown up on Folkway's Nonesuch field recordings and the stuff Lomax had done for the Library of Congress, but the production values…

— David Byrne

Lou Reed's spirit and the way he did things was so important. Him and his music mean so much to me as the years…

— Jim James

When you look at that period when Warhol and the Velvets and the Stones were doing things, it was this intersection of art and…

— Robbie Robertson

I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out…

— Igor Stravinsky

There are a lot of great recording artists, like Jack White and Jack Johnson, who stay confined inside a very small box, but I'm…

— Mat Kearney

Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary.

— Pete Seeger

“he was the indisputable master of the night, bopping as he churned out an endless assortment of music designed to trigger the primal human…

— Zita Harrison

I never could understand - it was impossible for me to get my head around - what the furor was, what the sense of…

— Greil Marcus