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Chris Frantz is an American musician best known as the drummer for the influential rock band Talking Heads and the Tom Tom Club. His innovative drumming style and contributions to the sound of both bands have earned him recognition in the music world. Frantz's work has left a significant mark on the development of alternative rock and new wave music.
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"We get these overzealous young men and their girlfriends. It's happened occasionally where one of them will lean up against the front of the stage and the guy is behind her, and it starts off as just dancing and then it gets into something more."

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"Everybody's going through a lot of stress these days, no matter how well off you are and how many advantages you have, it's a stressful time in everybody's lives."

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"We used to really feel like the band was our family."

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"I don't know how much influence we really had, because we never put our pictures on the albums or anything and we never really promoted the Talking Heads connection, because we wanted to keep it separate from Talking Heads."

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"Our studio is kind of built into our home, so it's a place you can ramble, and we can do a pretty good recording here. The band is really comfortable her."

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"If a band is really good and the chemistry is unique, it should continue. But I guess David is just very happy doing his solo career. He's got a different band every time he goes out."

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"One always hopes that you're going to have influence and staying power, but you never know."

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"I remember going for the first time to a place called The Roxy in New York because you can see people breakdancing there. That's the only reason I went! It's amazing, kids are still doing that."

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"As much as we love playing the small clubs, we'd really like to get ourselves in front of a larger audience. I'm not talking about arenas or anything, but nice theaters and larger clubs."

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"Besides the two Christmas things, we've got a about a dozen new tracks we're working on."

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