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The avarice of mankind is insatiable. — Aristotle.

I'm not even sure who my audience is. — Tom Verlaine

I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss. — Tom Verlaine

The Beat thing happened when I was younger. I used to run away from home, inspired by the Beats, like in '64 and '65. — Tom Verlaine

When I think of 'influence', I think of 'influenza', like somebody's picked up a germ. — Tom Verlaine

Places like Belgium and the south of France, Sweden and Copenhagen are really alive. They really love rock 'n' roll, they really respond. — Tom Verlaine

I really don't have that much interest in stardom. — Tom Verlaine

You know, there is something I'm looking for when I'm writing. But I couldn't tell you what that is. — Tom Verlaine

Emily Dickinson has great sound and sense. — Tom Verlaine

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

Practice? I never practice. I just write songs and take solos. — Tom Verlaine

You have to have that organizational principle behind the song. — Tom Verlaine

When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone. — Tom Verlaine

Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin. — Anonymous

Boogie! I hate boogie, God, I mean, not the Chicago boogie like Willie Dixon or Howlin' Wolf, but all those awful white bands ... — Tom Verlaine

I don't think anybody thinks about their past much, unless they're in a mental institution. — Tom Verlaine

You can't get so interested in just making sounds. The point of it all is some kind of expression. — Tom Verlaine

I've got a quote for you, a good quote to describe Television ... In madness there is order. — Tom Verlaine

I told somebody in Europe I was 43. I never tell my true age. It's ridiculous that people ask. The press doesn't deserve anything but lies. — Tom Verlaine

You should treat your body like a canvas. — Theophilus London

Your wine is just sour grapes
Pour me a glass anytime I'm not there — Tom Verlaine

It is a terribly easy matter to be a minister of the gospel and a vile hypocrite at the same time. — Charles Spurgeon

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality. — Tom Verlaine

What's really fun is to write under different names. — Tom Verlaine

God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That's solely in the hands of God. — Johnny Cash

The song Venus de Milo, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug. — Tom Verlaine

When the business people get done with the arts, all that's left will be entertainment. — Daniel R. Thorne

My dad was my swim coach growing up, and I tried to get kicked out of practice every day. I was a little devil kid. — Ryan Lochte

If we want to end this lifetime higher than we began, we can expect an uphill road. — Richard Bach

Direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest. — Rodger Kamenetz

Natalie from the Dixie Chicks could have said what she said before 9-11 and no one would have cared. — John Mellencamp

As it is with all stories, fast cars, wild bears, mental illness, and even life, only one truth remains: your mileage may vary. — Jenny Lawson

Fact: If you want to get ahead as a Canadian, you're going to have to leave the country. Especially if you have the gall to live in Montreal. — Laura Roberts

I'm not a clown but I'm not an academic either. — Tom Verlaine

Everybody's out trying to be commercial. I'm not trying to be anything, really. — Tom Verlaine

I know why the Jews and Muslims have nine hundred names for God; one small word is not enough for love. — Diana Gabaldon

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

I don't think Marquee Moon was so good, y'know? Just another record. First records everybody likes a lot. — Tom Verlaine

I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade. — Tom Verlaine

I never liked mellow sounding guitar. — Tom Verlaine