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"David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters."
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"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."
Light
"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."
Change
"Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world."
Funny
"You learn just as much from your failures. Sometimes you love your failures even more."
Love
"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."
God
"It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world."
Talent
"When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music."
Music
"Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make."
Art
"I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar."
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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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"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."
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"Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good."
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"It's about finding great artists and being part of their careers."
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"Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes."
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"Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist."
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"The industry is a menace to artists."
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"There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist."
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"I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own."
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"Of course, the kids who had never heard of a person called Ben E. King were then aware of the name associated with the song. That gave a tremendous lift to me as an artist."
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"Most artists come in and out of the country, they stay may be 2 weeks - or a month max and then they leave."
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