Mr. Reed wrote in the liner notes [to Metal Machine Music] that ?no one I know has listened to it all the way through, including myself.?
The composer Brian Eno, in an often-quoted interview from 1982, suggested that if the group?s first album, ?The Velvet Underground & Nico,? sold only 30,000 copies during its first five years, ?everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band.?