- Musician | December 13, 1949 -
I really don't have that much interest in stardom.
Tom Verlaine
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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!
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All the Frank O'Hara types seem to have very little sound stuff going... it's so chatty or something.
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Emily Dickinson has great sound and sense.
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I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.
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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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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.
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I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss.
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The first time I met Patti Smith was in a laundromat. We knew some of the same people, including Richard Hell.
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I think almost every woman artist I've ever met has this ideal of being in a partnership working situation with a man, that men don't seem to share. They seem to want this ideal thing, that we'll always be together and work together.
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You have to have that organizational principle behind the song.
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