A Quote by Ezra Furman

I heard the Velvet Underground and that changed things when I was like, 15.

Ezra Furman

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Ezra Furman
American - Musician
Born: September 5, 1986

As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it.

Henry Rollins

I like their darkness but I also like the pop-side of the Velvet Underground.

Martin Gore

If you would keep your soul From spotted sight or sound, Live like the velvet mole; Go burrow underground.

Elinor Wylie

I knew about things like Iggy Pop and The Velvet Underground, weirdly, before I knew about David Bowie. I didn't know what David Bowie was, when I was a kid. I thought he was like Visage.

Stewart Lee

When we learned to play in bands, what we were covering was equal part the Velvet Underground and the Grateful Dead. That would defy the logic that somehow these things don't fit in the same musical well.

Bryce Dessner

I love the Velvet Underground, bro.

Scarface

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

As a songwriter, oddly enough, my influences were people like Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, and Buddy Holly. Some psychedelic stuff, too.

Ric Ocasek

I would be happy to produce groups, like John Cale - he was in the Velvet Underground, and then he went on to produce these bands.

Stephen Malkmus

I like Velvet Underground, but I was never really hardcore into them. I like them, and I like Nico, but I won't front like I'm super knowledgeable. I just never got around to it.

Eric Andre

It's hard to imagine the whole punk movement without The Velvet Underground. I toured with them when they did their reunion tour, and no one sounds like that; they are a very unique-sounding band.

Dean Wareham

'You Talk' was originally a copy of a certain Velvet Underground song.

Pete Doherty

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

Martin Gore

Films I've really liked are when you've walked out and you're still in that movie for a while. That's virtual reality for me, to go into a theatre, especially with the use of sound - a subconscious thing that's underestimated. I remember seeing 'Blue Velvet' when I was 15, and half the audience walking out, but I thought my life had changed.