Quotes by Tom Verlaine

You have to have that organizational principle behind the song.

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

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What's really fun is to write under different names.

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

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The first time I met Patti Smith was in a laundromat. We knew some of...

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It's like first grade where you make all your mistakes and people see it and...

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

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I think almost every woman artist I've ever met has this ideal of being in...

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

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I never liked mellow sounding guitar.

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

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I just don't like people coming up to me and saying something. It immediately makes...

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