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It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world.
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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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You learn just as much from your failures. Sometimes you love your failures even more.
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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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I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.
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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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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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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 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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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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There are no more barbershop quartets wearing boaters, even though I still like them. Life goes on.
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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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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 wore our safety pins on the inside of our clothes.
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Generosity is the key to all relationships. To friendships and bands. That's the golden rule.
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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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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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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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Sometimes, you have to go through a phase whether you like it or not.
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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.
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Tom Tom Club has a whole different attitude and approach, not just musically but in performance. Some people said they liked it.
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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.