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

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Tom Verlaine, born on December 13, 1949, is an American singer-songwriter known for his unique musical style and innovative lyrics. He is considered a pioneer of post-punk and new wave music. more

“People ask me this a lot, what a song's about.... I do think analyzing a song can be interesting, although it doesn't necessarily get to the point. It's a whole other side activity. I do like making a thing into pictures. If I get an abstract idea and all the words in it don't represent tangible things, I might try to take the idea and make it into a picture, create a little scene there, an image.”

People Ifs Thinking Trying Littles Ideas Whole Might Song Asks Sides Interesting Scene Activity Ask Me Abstract Tangible Analyzing

Author:Tom Verlaine

“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".”

Knows Kind Whole Seems Might Stuff Emotion Cry Type Elements Europe Wave Radio Pops Accepted Pop Music Love Emotion

Author:Tom Verlaine

“Television was one of those magnificent kind of events where everything fell into place.”

Kind Events Television Magnificent

Author:Richard Lloyd

“I have a real soft spot for flying saucer songs and Frenkenstein songs. When I was a kid the first record I ever really liked was called "The Mummy", and the flip-side was called "The Beat Generation" which Richard Hell later re-wrote as "The Blank Generation". I thought it was the greatest thing I had ever heard. I didn't like Elvis much then, but I was very young. When I was a kid I used to play that monster all the time!”

Firsts Real Play Kids Young Used Song Sides Hell Records Generations Heard Beats Monsters Flying Spots Blank Flip Mummy Flying Saucers Beat Generation

Author:Tom Verlaine

“Some of the albums I like best in the whole world are considered psychedelic albums. A psychedelic album is an album that when you put it on, if you listen to both sides, when it's over, your perceptions have been changed and I think that our record can do that.”

Ifs Thinking World Has Beens Whole Sides Can Do Records Changed Perception Albums Whole World Over You Both Sides Psychedelic

Author:Richard Lloyd

“They were recorded without processed cheese. Listen to old '50s records. The style may be dated, but the recording isn't.”

May Records Style Cheese

Author:Richard Lloyd

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

Thinking Past Institutions

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“Rock is stronger than any misguided theories of cultural events. It's bigger than that.”

Rocks Events Theory Bigger Stronger Misguided

Author:Richard Lloyd

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

Alive Rocks South France Rock N Roll Sweden Belgium Copenhagen

Author: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.”

Home Running Used Happened Beats Inspired Things Happen Running Away Away From Home

Author:Tom Verlaine

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