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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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"Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock."
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"I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it."
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"Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing."
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"I did play every little note on the guitar on that record."
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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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"Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public."
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"Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately."
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"We didn't have any instruments, so I had to use my guitar."
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"I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it."
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"When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting."
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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
"When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music."
Music
"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
"I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar."
Guitar
"David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters."
Artist
"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."
Time
"I would really love to work with Paul McCartney. Isn't that arrogant?"
Love
"I don't want to wreck my voice. I love to concentrate on playing the bass and keeping it very rock-solid. If I were singing, I would have blown out my voice."
Love
"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."
People
"It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it."
Learning
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