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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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"I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like."
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"I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race."
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"There was just no way I could leave this little Martin guitar in my apartment overnight or even in the afternoon, and expect to find it there when I got back."
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"I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange."
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"I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar."
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"It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards."
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"I had different bands. I played with the Acoustic Warriors for the most part, without girl singers. It was the same kind of sound, acoustic guitar, bass, with violin and sometimes accordion, and the guys would sing, that kind of thing."
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"He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar."
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"I have no guitar technique."
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"I was a drummer and I played the guitar."
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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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"I would really love to work with Paul McCartney. Isn't that arrogant?"
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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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"I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar."
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"It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it."
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"You learn just as much from your failures. Sometimes you love your failures even more."
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"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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"David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters."
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"When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music."
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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."
Time
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