Tina Weymouth Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Stick to your instincts.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

There's a tolerance and this is a really big thing when it comes to really increasing the whole sense of getting something done and boosting the economy. Obviously not everything is going to be a bonanza, some things are going to be awful, but wouldn't it be great if we had a fantastic window dresser to do something with those windows on Fairfield green and those Victoria's Secret windows. I love girls in bras in panties, but these are just mannequins. Wouldn't it be great if some local artists got together and said, "Hey, Victoria's Secret, let's do something!" We need that.

Talking Heads, for me and Chris, was a very personal thing that we shared with a lot of people. In a way, I'm glad it's over, because it allows us to move beyond the restrictions that followed.

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.

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

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're not getting paid. We have these great musicians with us and it gives us a real charge. And the audience gives us a charge, because they keep it interesting all the time.

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'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.

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

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

When we were making Speaking in Tongues and Remain in Light, we were jamming. From that we were taking the best bits and then recording and improvising on top of those.

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

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.