Tina Weymouth Quotes

I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.

Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world.

When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.

Even the Beatles found it hard to escape their image; they were trapped by it.

If you have this passion for music, you don't stop doing it - it chooses you and doesn't release you.

It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take as much time off as we did, eight years, booking agents don't know if you'll draw.

I'm not going to hold my breath because life goes on. Life is too short to sit around moaning about what could have been or what was.

Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.

We don't always know what we're doing. We often just get excited, put something down, and say, 'Oh, neat'.

There are no more barbershop quartets wearing boaters, even though I still like them. Life goes on.

It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it.

We always thought the Tom Tom Club could change to anything, but it acquired this image, which was cartoon animation and this real light-hearted dance music.

We groove off of everything, any sort of live show. The inner dialogue you're having with yourself, between you and the music, is for me the search for God.

Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided.

It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world.

I don't want to wreck my voice. I love to concentrate on playing the bass and keeping it very rock-solid. If I were singing, I would have blown out my voice.

I would really love to work with Paul McCartney. Isn't that arrogant?

I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.

We wore our safety pins on the inside of our clothes.

I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech.

We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere. So it worked out very well I think.

In Europe they understand that the arts are incredibly important both culturally and economically.

Being able to allow people to be who they are without trying to change them is important.

Sometimes, you have to go through a phase whether you like it or not.

Tom Tom Club has a whole different attitude and approach, not just musically but in performance. Some people said they liked it.

Richard Lloyd of Television is one of my favorite guitarists. His mentor was Jimi Hendrix when he was just 14. Jimi was always pounding everything he knew into that kid.

We don't really have more than acouple of solos. It's just the way our music is put together.

Generosity is the key to all relationships. To friendships and bands. That's the golden rule.

Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a part of your life without being something that earns.

I tend to like people that are generous and give other people the benefit of the doubt.

Stick to your instincts.

You learn just as much from your failures. Sometimes you love your failures even more.

I have respect for those who make money at art and do it well and smartly, because that commercial aspect keeps the world going and running, in a sense.