Top 35 Tom Verlaine Quotes (2024 Update)

Tom Verlaine Quote: “I’m not a clown but I’m not an academic either.”

1. “I’m not a clown but I’m not an academic either.”

— Tom Verlaine

Tom Verlaine Quote: “Practice? I never practice. I just write songs and take solos.”

2. “Practice? I never practice. I just write songs and take solos.”

— Tom Verlaine

Tom Verlaine Quote: “I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live.”

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

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Tom Verlaine Quote: “You can’t get so interested in just making sounds. The point of it all is some kind of expression.”

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

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Tom Verlaine Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

— Tom Verlaine

Tom Verlaine Quote: “The first time I met Patti Smith was in a laundromat. We knew some of the same people, including Richard Hell.”

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

— Tom Verlaine

Tom Verlaine Quote: “Well, I worked in a sheet metal factory once and scarred my wrist from the cuts. I found a sympathetic psychiatrist who told the draft board I was insane. We used the scars as proof of a suicide attempt.”

7. “Well, I worked in a sheet metal factory once and scarred my wrist from the cuts. I found a sympathetic psychiatrist who told the draft board I was insane. We used the scars as proof of a suicide attempt.”

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Tom Verlaine Quote: “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.”

8. “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

Tom Verlaine Quote: “I told somebody in Europe I was 43. I never tell my true age. It’s ridiculous that people ask. The press doesn’t deserve anything but lies.”

9. “I told somebody in Europe I was 43. I never tell my true age. It’s ridiculous that people ask. The press doesn’t deserve anything but lies.”

— Tom Verlaine

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

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

— Tom Verlaine

Tom Verlaine Quote: “Emily Dickinson has great sound and sense.”

11. “Emily Dickinson has great sound and sense.”

— Tom Verlaine

Tom Verlaine Quote: “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!”

12. “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!”

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Tom Verlaine Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

— Tom Verlaine

Tom Verlaine Quote: “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.”

14. “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

Tom Verlaine Quote: “I don’t see us as a big media gimmick band. We don’t have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss.”

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

— Tom Verlaine

Tom Verlaine Quote: “The Beat thing happened when I was younger. I used to run away from home, inspired by the Beats, like in ’64 and ’65.”

16. “The Beat thing happened when I was younger. I used to run away from home, inspired by the Beats, like in ’64 and ’65.”

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Tom Verlaine Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

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

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

— Tom Verlaine

Tom Verlaine Quote: “The song Venus de Milo, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug.”

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

— Tom Verlaine

Tom Verlaine Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

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Tom Verlaine Quote: “I don’t think anybody thinks about their past much, unless they’re in a mental institution.”

21. “I don’t think anybody thinks about their past much, unless they’re in a mental institution.”

— Tom Verlaine

Tom Verlaine Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

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Tom Verlaine Quote: “Style to me is incidental. The British are very adept at creating it for its own sake, but the best style is incidental. John Coltrane had a style but it was totally incidental to what he was.”

23. “Style to me is incidental. The British are very adept at creating it for its own sake, but the best style is incidental. John Coltrane had a style but it was totally incidental to what he was.”

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Tom Verlaine Quote: “With my records, it’s just a matter of trying to create something fresh for myself in a very finite context, which is the pop song. I don’t know anything about the people who buy my records, and what, if anything, they get out of them.”

24. “With my records, it’s just a matter of trying to create something fresh for myself in a very finite context, which is the pop song. I don’t know anything about the people who buy my records, and what, if anything, they get out of them.”

— Tom Verlaine

Tom Verlaine Quote: “I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.”

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

— Tom Verlaine

Tom Verlaine Quote: “I’m not even sure who my audience is.”

26. “I’m not even sure who my audience is.”

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Tom Verlaine Quote: “My non-career. My excuse for a career? Honestly, I never think about the word ‘career.’ I’ve had managers, the minute they say it to me, they look at me and just roll their eyes.”

27. “My non-career. My excuse for a career? Honestly, I never think about the word ‘career.’ I’ve had managers, the minute they say it to me, they look at me and just roll their eyes.”

— Tom Verlaine

Tom Verlaine Quote: “Everybody’s out trying to be commercial. I’m not trying to be anything, really.”

28. “Everybody’s out trying to be commercial. I’m not trying to be anything, really.”

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Tom Verlaine Quote: “I’d never assume an audience was anything but totally receptive and perfect. Seriously, it seems to me that’s the only circumstance you can work under. Otherwise, speaking for myself, you may as well be in the advertising business.”

29. “I’d never assume an audience was anything but totally receptive and perfect. Seriously, it seems to me that’s the only circumstance you can work under. Otherwise, speaking for myself, you may as well be in the advertising business.”

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Tom Verlaine Quote: “I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.”

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

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Tom Verlaine Quote: “What’s really fun is to write under different names.”

31. “What’s really fun is to write under different names.”

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Tom Verlaine Quote: “I really don’t have that much interest in stardom.”

32. “I really don’t have that much interest in stardom.”

— Tom Verlaine

Tom Verlaine Quote: “When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.”

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

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Tom Verlaine Quote: “I never liked mellow sounding guitar.”

34. “I never liked mellow sounding guitar.”

— Tom Verlaine

Tom Verlaine Quote: “You know, there is something I’m looking for when I’m writing. But I couldn’t tell you what that is.”

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

— Tom Verlaine

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