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"Poetry is an art that uses words to paint vivid pictures of perceptions and emotions."


"I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form."


"When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist."


"I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality."
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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."


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


"It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it."


"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."


"David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters."


"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."


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


"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."
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