Tina Weymouth Quotes
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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.
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It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world.
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I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.
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If you have this passion for music, you don't stop doing it - it chooses you and doesn't release you.
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You learn just as much from your failures. Sometimes you love your failures even more.
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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.
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We don't always know what we're doing. We often just get excited, put something down, and say, 'Oh, neat'.
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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.
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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.
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We wore our safety pins on the inside of our clothes.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There are no more barbershop quartets wearing boaters, even though I still like them. Life goes on.
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Generosity is the key to all relationships. To friendships and bands. That's the golden rule.
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Being able to allow people to be who they are without trying to change them is important.
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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.
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I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech.
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I tend to like people that are generous and give other people the benefit of the doubt.
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Sometimes, you have to go through a phase whether you like it or not.
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When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.
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Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.
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I would really love to work with Paul McCartney. Isn't that arrogant?
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We don't really have more than acouple of solos. It's just the way our music is put together.