Tom Verlaine
Tom Verlaine
Tom Verlaine is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist, best known as the frontman for the New York rock band Television...
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth13 December 1949
american-novelist
You have to have that organizational principle behind the song.
american-novelist came found guy house knocked letter lived somehow
I just got a letter from a guy in Japan. One of them somehow found out where I lived one day and came up to my house and knocked on my door.
expression sound kind
You can't get so interested in just making sounds. The point of it all is some kind of expression.
audience
I'm not even sure who my audience is.
people way sincerely
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.
thinking past institutions
I don't think anybody thinks about their past much, unless they're in a mental institution.
europe elements radio
There were a lot of things I listened to, but so-called pop music never killed me, you know, the type of stuff that always seems to make it on the radio. The whole radio thing seems so... it's like they've accepted the whole "new wave" thing only because this kind of pop element came into it. In Europe they really love emotion, but here it's like, "let's stay away from it because we might cry or something".
thinking germs influence
When I think of 'influence', I think of 'influenza', like somebody's picked up a germ.
rocks alive sweden
Places like Belgium and the south of France, Sweden and Copenhagen are really alive. They really love rock 'n' roll, they really respond.
eye thinking careers
My non-career. My excuse for a career? Honestly, I never think about the word 'career.' I've had managers, the minute they say it to me, they look at me and just roll their eyes.
order television madness
I've got a quote for you, a good quote to describe Television...In madness there is order.
player guitar records
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!
kissing media gimmicks
I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss.
littles stuff sound
All the Frank O'Hara types seem to have very little sound stuff going... it's so chatty or something.