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"Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world."

"Unless you close your door to other ideas, you will never remain idealess!"

"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."

"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."

"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."

"In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!"

"To move the earth like Archimedes, one needs not a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it. There is an easier way: Give a genius a beautiful remote house in a green valley where he can think calmly, and he shall move the earth with ideas!"
Explore more quotes by Tina Weymouth

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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 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."

"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."
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