Tom Verlaine Quotes

Tom Verlaine — Musician born on December 13, 1949,

Tom Verlaine is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist, best known as the frontman for the New York rock band Television... (wikipedia)

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.

You have to have that organizational principle behind the song.

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.

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

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 Quotes

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