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.
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.
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.
mistake years people
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.
saxophone records grades
When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.
piano lessons grew
I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.
couple thinking people
Yeah, I'd say there's probably about a couple of hundred people I admire - but that has nothing to do with what a person does themselves. That's why I never mention these things. You can read a detective novel you really like, but it had no bearing on what you do yourself, you just think, "God, how this guy wove this together!" Or you get into the energy of it. Or you see a poem which makes a great statement about sentiment, but it's not sentimental.