 Even the Beatles found it hard to escape their image; they were trapped by it. |
| It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world. |
| If you have this passion for music, you don't stop doing it - it chooses you and doesn't release you. |
| It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it. |
| Richard Lloyd of Television is one of my favorite guitarists. His mentor was Jimi Hendrix when he was just 14. Jimi was always pounding everything he knew into that kid. |
| Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make. |
| 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. |
| Stick to your instincts. |
| Sometimes, you have to go through a phase whether you like it or not. |
| When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music. |
| I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech. |
| We don't always know what we're doing. We often just get excited, put something down, and say, 'Oh, neat'. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar. |
| David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters. |
| We don't really have more than acouple of solos. It's just the way our music is put together. |
| You learn just as much from your failures. Sometimes you love your failures even more. |
| We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere. So it worked out very well I think. |
