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):

Written and recorded by Bob Dylan. The song initially appeared on his 1967 album John Wesley Harding, and it has been included on most of Dylan’s subsequent greatest hits compilations. Since the late 1970s, he has performed it in concert more than any of his other songs. Different versions appear on four of Dylan’s live albums.