Tom Verlaine Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“Emily Dickinson has great sound and sense.”

“I never liked mellow sounding guitar.”

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

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

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

“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.”