Tom Verlaine

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. ↗

— Tom Verlaine

#coming #i #immediately #insincere #just

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

— Tom Verlaine

#interest #much #really #stardom

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

— Tom Verlaine

#going #hara #little #seem #something

Emily Dickinson has great sound and sense. ↗

— Tom Verlaine

#great #sense #sound

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

— Tom Verlaine

#appearance #band #big #cultivated #gimmick

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

— Tom Verlaine

#grew #i #lessons #liking #piano

I never liked mellow sounding guitar. ↗

— Tom Verlaine

#i #liked #mellow #never #sounding

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

— Tom Verlaine

#distilled #i #i wonder #like #poets

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

— Tom Verlaine

#first time #hell #i #including #knew

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

— Tom Verlaine

#love is #milo #song #subject #venus