..It speak volumes about the album’s universality that its songs have soundtracked everything from Michael Hutchence’s funeral to Shrek 2.
~Stuart Berman (pitchfork.com)The Boatman’s Call is one of his finest albums and arguably the masterpiece he has been promising throughout his career.
~Stephen Thomas Erlewine (allmusic.com)
Into My Arms – live
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One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you’re into jazz.
~Lou ReedI think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it’s going to happen.
~Lou Reed
…he’s often cited as punk’s most important ancestor. It’s often overlooked, though, that he’s equally skilled at celebrating romantic joy, and rock & roll itself, as he is at depicting harrowing urban realities.
~Richie Unterberger
Patti Smith inducts Velvet Underground Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 1996 – Complete Speech:
Sweet Jane (@ Letterman 1993):
I can’t retire.
~Roger DaltreyFirst of all, you have to understand that I’m like anybody else. When I hear my voice on a record I absolutely loathe my voice. I cannot stand my voice.
~Roger DaltreyHe almost invented the pseudo-messianic role taken up later by Jim Morrison and Robert Plant.
~Pete Townshend
Roger Daltrey tribute: