I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade. — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone. — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
You can't get so interested in just making sounds. The point of it all is some kind of expression. — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss. — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
The whole reputation of being a rock guitar player, I could really care less about it. Still, when I hear new groups… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
With my records, it's just a matter of trying to create something fresh for myself in a very finite context, which is… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
Style to me is incidental. The British are very adept at creating it for its own sake, but the best style is… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ trio record… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
I've seen a lot of people getting into Jazzmasters because of me, and, well, people don't know what they're in for. I… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
I recently realized that Television has influenced a lot of English bands. Echo and the Bunnymen, U2, Teardrop Explodes - it's obvious… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
I don't want any production credit. I think producers are overrated. They're for people who, first of all, don't know anything about… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
People ask me this a lot, what a song's about… I do think analyzing a song can be interesting, although it doesn't… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
I have a real soft spot for flying saucer songs and Frenkenstein songs. When I was a kid the first record I… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
I always like junkyards. All this metal piled up - they're filled with pathos, those places. Much more pathos than most of… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
My non-career. My excuse for a career? Honestly, I never think about the word 'career.' I've had managers, the minute they say it to… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share
I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. — Tom Verlaine Copy Share
Johnny Jewel is how people were maybe two hundred years ago. Back then, when people got up in the morning, they knew what they… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share
Everybody's out trying to be commercial. I'm not trying to be anything, really. — Tom Verlaine Copy Share
I don't want any production credit. I think producers are overrated. They're for people who, first of all, don't know anything about music or… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share
I just don't like people coming up to me and saying something. It immediately makes you become insincere. There is no way you can… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share
I'd never assume an audience was anything but totally receptive and perfect. Seriously, it seems to me that's the only circumstance you can work… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share
I've got a quote for you, a good quote to describe Television...In madness there is order. — Tom Verlaine Copy Share
I told somebody in Europe I was 43. I never tell my true age. It's ridiculous that people ask. The press doesn't deserve anything… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share
I don't think anybody thinks about their past much, unless they're in a mental institution. — Tom Verlaine Copy Share
All the Frank O'Hara types seem to have very little sound stuff going... it's so chatty or something. — Tom Verlaine Copy Share
It's like first grade where you make all your mistakes and people see it and yet some people see that there's something there that's… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share
I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ trio record I would… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share
