All Tom Verlaine Quotes
The song Venus de Milo, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug.
Tom Verlaine
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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 to it sincerely.
Tom Verlaine
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The first time I met Patti Smith was in a laundromat. We knew some of the same people, including Richard Hell.
Tom Verlaine
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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 valuable. That's the way it went for more than 2 years almost 3 years of playing.
Tom Verlaine
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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 seem to share. They seem to want this ideal thing, that we'll always be together and work together.
Tom Verlaine
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You have to have that organizational principle behind the song.
Tom Verlaine
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When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.
Tom Verlaine
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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 sure I'd buy one that did not have a guitar player on it. The sound was awful!
Tom Verlaine
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I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.
Tom Verlaine
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I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.
Tom Verlaine
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I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss.
Tom Verlaine
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