Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
All Quotes by author - Tina Weymouth
" Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make. "
Great
Golf
Degrees
" David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters. "
Play
Any
Anything
" Even the Beatles found it hard to escape their image; they were trapped by it. "
Image
Escape
Beatles
" 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. "
Want
Love
Out
" If you have this passion for music, you don't stop doing it - it chooses you and doesn't release you. "
You
Doing
Music
" 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. "
Money
World
Running
" I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild. "
Wild
Starting
People
" I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech. "
Play
Bass
Go
" I think the idea of having the show divided into two parts was that Tom Tom Club opened for Talking Heads in Europe, and it was the best we'd ever had as an opening act. "
Opening
Think
Talking
" 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. "
Rock
Know
You
" It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it. "
Keep
Things
Hard
" It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world. "
Respect
Talent
World
" I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar. "
Guitar
Everyone
Because
" I would really love to work with Paul McCartney. Isn't that arrogant? "
Really
Love
Work
" 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. "
Dance
Difference
Language
" 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. "
Expectations
Relationship
Change
" 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. "
Just
Mentor
Television
" Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world. "
You
Clown
Funny
" Sometimes, you have to go through a phase whether you like it or not. "
Sometimes
Through
Like
" Stick to your instincts. "
Instincts
Stick
Your
" 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. "
Way
Personal
People
" 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. "
Always
Thought
Music
" We don't always know what we're doing. We often just get excited, put something down, and say, 'Oh, neat'. "
Down
Always
Doing
" We don't really have more than acouple of solos. It's just the way our music is put together. "
More
Music
Way
" 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. "
Me
Yourself
Music
" 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. "
Think
Moments
Sadness
" 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. "
Musicians
Time
Interesting
" When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music. "
Dance
Thinking
Talking
" 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. "
Top
Best
Light
" You learn just as much from your failures. Sometimes you love your failures even more. "
Just
Learn
Sometimes
Check our other websites:
BookDark
MusicDark