Ophelia Lovibond Quotes

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

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.

I listen to a lot of indie or rock music.

Believe it or not, I loved acid rock in college - and I still do.

The Velvet Underground is probably the best band that's ever existed, assuredly the best American one.

Tame Impala and I love the psychedelia. To me, it sounds like Blind Faith and old bands from back in the freak days. It just hit a nerve to me. I was just really feeling that sound.

When I grew up, my dad listened to all that stuff - Neil Young. Floyd. The Doors. The Beatles. Stones. So even now, to this day, it's the music I listen to a lot of the time.

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

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.

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.

Asleep by the Smiths Vapour Trail by Ride Scarborough Fair by Simon & Garfunkel A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum Dear Prudence by the Beatles Gypsy by Suzanne Vega Nights in White Satin by the Moody Blues Daydream by Smashing Pumpkins Dusk by Genesis (before Phil Collins was even in the band!) MLK by U2 Blackbird by the Beatles Landslide by Fleetwood Mac Asleep by the Smiths (again!) -Charlie's mixtape

I wasn't into pop music, even at a really young age.

Nowadays I'm more interested in what you'd call 'alternative.' Lately we've been listening to a lot of Mumford & Sons, and Jenny Owen Youngs. I'm also pretty crazy about the Kings of Convenience, a Norwegian band that's been compared to Simon and Garfunkel.

I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.

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

The Beatles, the Small Faces and the Kinks were great bands, but that was in the '60s.

It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and '70s has been.

Are Simon & Garfunkel cool, or are they just really uncool? I can't decide.

I always got a kick out of it when they called it the California Sound because it really came out of Liverpool and Greenwich Village.

Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.

I'm a little bit out of it, I suppose; I'm more of the golden oldie type.

I love rock and roll. Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong decade because I love Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix and... those are my bands.

The band Grizzly Bear, I think they're excellent. There's a beauty and a musicality there that I wish would have been in vogue in the late '80s, when I was forming bands.

Band of Skulls is joining Cage the Elephant as my new musical caffeine.

We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.