I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade. — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
I write a lot of more instrumental music than I do vocal music. It's because I come out of a background of playing piano and then playing sax for a number of years. I kind of got into rock backwards.… — 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 Image
I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
Johnny Jewel is how people were maybe two hundred years ago. Back then, when people got up in the morning, they knew what they had to do to get through the day - there were 100% less decisions. Nowadays, we have to decide what we want to buy in grocery stores, what job to take, what work to do. But… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share
Everybody's out trying to be commercial. I'm not trying to be anything, really. — 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 music or… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
I've got a quote for you, a good quote to describe Television...In madness there is order. — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
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 Image
I don't think anybody thinks about their past much, unless they're in a mental institution. — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
All the Frank O'Hara types seem to have very little sound stuff going... it's so chatty or something. — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
