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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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"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."
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"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."
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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."
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."
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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 like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild."
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"Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated."
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"I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs."
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"I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around."
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"I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar."
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"I did play every little note on the guitar on that record."
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"In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again."
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"You should approach a sequencer like you would a Dobro guitar."
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"I just go where the guitar takes me."
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"I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired."
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"I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a different way."
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