The first time I met Patti Smith was in a laundromat. We knew some of the same people, including Richard Hell.
More Quotes from Tom Verlaine:
I never liked mellow sounding guitar.Tom Verlaine
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
Emily Dickinson has great sound and sense.
Tom Verlaine
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
You have to have that organizational principle behind the song.
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
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Hell Quotes, People QuotesBased on Keywords: laundromat, patti
Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.
Ambrose Bierce
Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words.
Northrop Frye
Do, What you're going to do in longevity. Not just what happens tomorrow.
Skitch Henderson