Mental Institution Quotes by Tom Verlaine

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

I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live.

— Tom Verlaine

I'm not even sure who my audience is.

— Tom Verlaine

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

Everybody's out trying to be commercial. I'm not trying to be anything, really.

— Tom Verlaine

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

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

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

I've got a quote for you, a good quote to describe Television...In madness there is order.

— Tom Verlaine

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

I don't think anybody thinks about their past much, unless they're in a mental institution.

— Tom Verlaine

All the Frank O'Hara types seem to have very little sound stuff going... it's so chatty or something.

— Tom Verlaine

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

Emily Dickinson has great sound and sense.

— Tom Verlaine

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