78 Quotes by Tom Verlaine

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.

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

I really don't have that much interest in stardom.

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

The first time I met Patti Smith was in a laundromat. We knew some of the same people, including Richard Hell.

When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.

I just got a letter from a guy in Japan. One of them somehow found out where I lived one day and came up to my house and knocked on my door.

Places like Belgium and the south of France, Sweden and Copenhagen are really alive. They really love rock 'n' roll, they really respond.

I recently realized that Television has influenced a lot of English bands. Echo and the Bunnymen, U2, Teardrop Explodes - it's obvious what they've listened to and what they're going for. When I was sixteen I listened to Yardbirds records and thought, "God, this is great." It's gratifying to think that people listened to Television albums and felt the same.