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Tina Weymouth

"When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music."

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"A song is anything that can walk by itself."

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"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."

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"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."

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"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."

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"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."

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"I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too."

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"How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me."

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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

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"I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music."

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"The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song."

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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 don't really have more than acouple of solos. It's just the way our music is put together."
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"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."
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"It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world."
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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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"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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"David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters."
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"I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech."
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"I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar."
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