All Tom Verlaine Quotes
- I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss. Anything Like
- Emily Dickinson has great sound and sense. Dickinson
- The song Venus de Milo, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug. De Milo
- I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ trio record I would make… Always Hated
- I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works.… Advantageous
- 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 react… Become Insincere
- All the Frank O'Hara types seem to have very little sound stuff going... it's so chatty or something. All
- I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality. All
- What's really fun is to write under different names. Different Names
- 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 really… All
- The first time I met Patti Smith was in a laundromat. We knew some of the same people, including Richard Hell. First Time
- I think almost every woman artist I've ever met has this ideal of being in a partnership working situation with a man, that men don't… Almost Every
- I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade. Grade
- When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone. Around Seventh
- I never liked mellow sounding guitar. Guitar
- I really don't have that much interest in stardom. Inspirational
- You have to have that organizational principle behind the song. Behind