Top 60 Velvet Quotes

A black or royal blue velvet blazer will look great with a pair of jeans and a black or navy turtleneck sweater – though it’s a more casual look.

‘Bombay Velvet’ is my most romantic film, it’s my ‘Titanic’ or ‘Gone With The Wind.’

I love the Velvet Underground, bro.

When a band becomes as truly iconic as the Velvet Underground, there will often be a box set released, overburdened with mediocre material that dilutes what was fine left on its own.

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

Parallels between classical and pop are not new. The whole San Francisco movement of John Cage and Terry Riley went hand in glove with what the Velvet Underground were doing.

Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.

Velvet is great. It’s warm as well. And it’s snug.

My beauty tricks revolve around eyes. For the early morning shoots, I pop eye pads in the freezer the night before, and when I take them out in the morning they are already cold and active and are great under my eyes. I keep my eye pads right next to my red velvet Ben & Jerry’s in the freezer.

When I was very little, I was into Michael Jackson. At six or seven, it was Madonna, but she’s not what she used to be. I’ve been into everything from Edith Piaf to Joe Strummer to the Velvet Underground to Suicide to A Tribe Called Quest to African music.

Anurag was always too passionate about ‘Raman Raghav 2.0’ to care about anything else. There never was a ‘Bombay Velvet’ hangover.

I kind of have a uniform for office parties and Christmas parties. What I do is put on a basic tuxedo shirt with a solid navy or black tie, a tweed jacket, a red pocket square, and some sort of fancy shoe or velvet slipper.

I had three older sisters whose record collections I borrowed, so I was listening to The Velvet Underground as well as Bach and brass band music.

Films like ‘Velvet Goldmine’ are an accumulation of research and references. I create an almost random resource of connections and am constantly distilling that into narrative specifics.

I have a Saint Laurent burgundy velvet jacket that has gold stars embroidered all over it and it’s my magic piece of clothing that makes me feel like a wizard or something.

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 wish I could write ‘Taxi Driver,’ or ‘Blue Velvet,’ something brave, audacious, dramatic and dark. I don’t know if I have the darkness in my own soul to be able to tap into it, unfortunately.

I guess, for me, what started me getting real excited about music was the New York punk and new-wave scene. All those bands looked back to the Velvet Underground and the Stooges and the Modern Lovers as well. But that was back when Television were punk, and the Talking Heads were punk.

As a songwriter, oddly enough, my influences were people like Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, and Buddy Holly. Some psychedelic stuff, too.

I was a schooled musician. When I made ‘Blue Velvet’, I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned music in school I told the band to play this. I told the guitar to do that.

Would I like to have a red velvet cupcake with cream cheese frosting? Yeah, I would.

My favorite model of success is when people say, ‘Nobody bought that first Velvet Underground album, but everyone who did started a band.’

I would be happy to produce groups, like John Cale – he was in the Velvet Underground, and then he went on to produce these bands.

Plush velvet conjures up kings and opulence.

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

Scholl Velvet Smooth Express Pedi is just great. You get yourself in a hot bath to soften up your skin and then use this, and it really works. Plus, it’s so easy to do, and you don’t have to leave the house, so whenever you want to put sandals on, you don’t have to worry about going to the salon.

As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, ‘White Light/White Heat,’ and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn’t get it.

My favorite holiday look would be either red velvet or sequins. That’s always gonna be my go-to for a holiday look! It’s a classic; it always works. It goes perfect with the occasion and the weather. It’s a feel.

It was a lovely feeling, dying. I can remember being in the hospital, all wired up to tubes and thinking, ‘If only you’d take these tubes out, it feels so nice.’ It felt so – it felt like being in a bath of velvet. It was such a nice feeling. Everything felt so soft and floppy, and I wanted to go.

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

Tom Ford gave me high heels for the baby. They’re a little kitten heel with a velvet rope that you tie. It’s like a collection piece. I have to put it on the bookshelf, framed.

My great-grandmother was in one of the first girl bands, in the 1920s. Their outfits were mental: velvet bloomers with big ribbons and headpieces. They were brilliant.

In burgundy, a well-cut and properly tailored velvet blazer looks dashing with gray flannels and a cashmere sweater or a sleek, solid velvet tie.

I love nice fabrics and texture like velvet and silk, and have a special Moroccan corner in my house to curl up and read in.

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

I don’t think we are trying too hard. WE is inclusive from the beginning. That’s the whole point. We’ve always been, ‘everyone is welcome.’ There is no velvet rope, no barrier to entry.

Sometimes I think I’d be perfectly happy to go on rewriting ‘Tipping the Velvet’ forever because it was so much fun.

I always write back to people who are kind enough to write to me. Actually, I don’t write – I recline on my red velvet sofa with my feet on the coffee table and dictate the letters to my eldest son.

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 am working on ‘Bombay Velvet’. The music for it is jazz from the ’60s.

I decorated my house like a medieval gothic castle, European-style. Chandeliers and red velvet curtains. My bedroom is pink and black, my bathroom is totally Hello Kitty, I have a massive pink couch and a big antique gold cross.

I wore my first pair of Louboutins during this press tour. It was absolutely amazing, they weren’t heels, they were little shoes, but they were velvet and they were blue.

I loved ‘Blue Velvet.’

I wanted to quit acting and as soon as I decided that, the call for ‘Velvet Buzzsaw’ came through.

Half of my closet is Barbie clothes – PVC skirts, cropped fuzzy sweaters, and velvet minis.

I played in Velvet Revolver, which is a raw, bombastic blues band with a punk rock edge to it. It’s like everything is based around the blues, no matter what the groove is.

I wore an Urban Outfitters dress on my wedding day. It was one I had in the back of my wardrobe. It was white. We went to City Hall here in New York. I wore it with blue velvet boots my husband bought for me. I loved it. It was my favorite thing. It was chilled and spontaneous.

At 18, I moved to L.A. with my heavy metal band Avant Garde, which was very much influenced by Metallica. At 19, I got a job at Tower Records, and everything started to change very quickly. I started listening to the Velvet Underground, Pixies, early Nirvana, Sonic Youth, and also earlier music like the Beatles.

My favorite instrument is the snare drum. In Scotland, the snare drum is very prominent in Highland bands. The Scottish style of playing is in my blood. It’s a very powerful instrument, but it can also be soothing, like velvet. It’s a real challenge for composers.

Known colloquially as ‘winter,’ ‘golden needle,’ and ‘velvet foot’ mushrooms, enoki mushrooms grow across much of the world, inhabiting dead conifer trees and stumps, and generally appearing throughout the late fall and winter months.

Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt.

Don’t be afraid to mix things up by pairing a military-style jacket with a velvet skirt, vintage with modern, off-the-rack with couture, formal with casual.

It wasn’t the first film to show a kind of alternate vision of suburbia, but it left an indelible impression, I think, on everybody, and all films like that will forever be measured against ‘Blue Velvet.’

When I was modeling, I’d go for castings in a pair of really tight, leopard-print trousers, like jeans, but with a velvet finish – very Rod Stewart, but also very sexy.

I’ll never turn down a red velvet cupcake.

‘You Talk’ was originally a copy of a certain Velvet Underground song.

Since I have psoriasis, I buy anything that feels good against my skin. I tend to wear really, really soft hoodies by the brand Velvet. Even if I don’t have a flare-up, I’m still like: Oh. My. God. This nice thing feels so good.