78 Quotes by Tom Verlaine

I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live.

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.

In Old English they don’t say I had a dream, but there’s another usage of the word – “life is but a dream,” to be corny about it. It’s implied with eyes wide open, rather than asleep. But I’m not a philosopher to explain myself. I wish I could. Maybe that’s why I’m a musician.

I don’t think Marquee Moon was so good, y’know? Just another record. First records everybody likes a lot.

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!

I don’t want any production credit. I think producers are overrated. They’re for people who, first of all, don’t know anything about music or arranging and have no ear for their own doings. They can’t tell a good solo from a bad solo, stuff like that.

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.

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

I always thought I was commercial. I always thought I was writing hit singles. These days, whatever’s on the radio is considered commercial. People like what’s on the radio, whatever it is.