78 Quotes by Tom Verlaine

There were a lot of things I listened to, but so-called pop music never killed me, you know, the type of stuff that always seems to make it on the radio. The whole radio thing seems so... it's like they've accepted the whole "new wave" thing only because this kind of pop element came into it. In Europe they really love emotion, but here it's like, "let's stay away from it because we might cry or something".

People ask me this a lot, what a song's about.... I do think analyzing a song can be interesting, although it doesn't necessarily get to the point. It's a whole other side activity. I do like making a thing into pictures. If I get an abstract idea and all the words in it don't represent tangible things, I might try to take the idea and make it into a picture, create a little scene there, an image.

You know, there is something I'm looking for when I'm writing. But I couldn't tell you what that is.

Everybody's out trying to be commercial. I'm not trying to be anything, really.

I can't presume to speak for the others, but I never felt anything negative from anyone when I was onstage with Television. When I played rhythm behind Lloyd, the only thing that concerned me was to push him as hard as I could so that he'd go beyond what he was capable of and come up with something new, and vice versa. That's the only thing that mattered.

I've got a quote for you, a good quote to describe Television...In madness there is order.

I'm not even sure who my audience is.

You can't get so interested in just making sounds. The point of it all is some kind of expression.

I’m not a clown but I’m not an academic either.