Quotes by Tom Verlaine

Tom Verlaine

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

Littles

Sound

Stuff

Boogie! I hate boogie, God, I mean, not the Chicago boogie like Willie Dixon or Howlin’ Wolf, but all those awful white bands.

Hate

Mean

White

Emily Dickinson has great sound and sense.

Emily

Sound

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!

Guitar

Player

Sound

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.

People

Radio

Writing

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.

Negative

Television

Vices

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

Band

Kissing

Media

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

Moon

Records

Thinking

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

Grew Up

Lessons

Piano

I have a real soft spot for flying saucer songs and Frenkenstein songs. When I was a kid the first record I ever really liked was called “The Mummy”, and the flip-side was called “The Beat Generation” which Richard Hell later re-wrote as “The Blank Generation”. I thought it was the greatest thing I had ever heard. I didn’t like Elvis much then, but I was very young. When I was a kid I used to play that monster all the time!

Kids

Real

Song

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Quotes by Tom Verlaine

Tom Verlaine

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

Boogie! I hate boogie, God, I mean, not the Chicago boogie like Willie Dixon or Howlin’ Wolf, but all those awful white bands.

Emily Dickinson has great sound and sense.

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 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.

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

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

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

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