Velvet Underground Quotes

Lou Reed: "I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine."

Maureen Tucker: "When I was playing with the Velvets, I was playing with a group of friends."

Sterling Morrison: "Anybody who needs Bob Dylan to tell him which way the wind is blowing is a serious mental defective."

Lou Reed: "I didn't get in it for the money, and I'm the same way now. I do it for me. Because I like doing it."


John Cale: "If I'm interested in what I'm doing, other people will be interested in it."

Lou Reed: "One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz."

Nico: "I don't think about the future, I can't think further than tomorrow morning...at the most. I leave that to somebody else."

Sterling Morrison: "I like the Doors. I like Jim Morrison, but for different reasons probably than you people think you like the Doors. I like Jim Morrison, he's real nice."

John Cale: "The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience."

Lou Reed: "I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future."

John Cale: "I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past."

Jim Morrison Quote

"Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs."

"Whoever controls the media, controls the mind."

"Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts."

"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are."

"I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think."

"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself."

"If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel."

"I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between."

"There are things known and things unknown and in between are the Doors."

"This is the strangest life I've ever known."

27 Club

Musical Stars Who Died At The Age Of 27

Robert Johnson: Blues
man, died Aug. 16, 1938 possibly from strychnine poisoning.

Brian Jones: Guitarist and founding member of the Rolling Stones. Drowned in his swimming pool on July 3, 1969.

Jimi Hendrix: Guitarist. Chocked on his own vomit, Sept. 18, 1970.

Janis Joplin: Lead singer for Big Brother And The Holding Company. Died from a heroin overdose Oct. 4, 1970.

Jim Morrison: Lead Singer For The Doors. Died from heart failure on July 3, 1971.


Peter Ham: Member of the rock group Badfinger. Committed suicide on Apr. 24, 1975.

Kurt Cobain: Lead Singer For Nirvana. Also committed suicide. He died on Apr. 5, 1994.

Amy Winehouse: The Latest member of the 27 club, she died July 23, 2011.