78 Quotes by Tom Verlaine

You have to have that organizational principle behind the song.

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. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you.

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.

I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss.

I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.

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.

The song Venus de Milo, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug.

What's really fun is to write under different names.

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!