Best 27 quotes of Tina Weymouth on MyQuotes

Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.

Being able to allow people to be who they are without trying to change them is important.

Even the Beatles found it hard to escape their image; they were trapped by it.

Generosity is the key to all relationships. To friendships and bands. That's the golden rule.

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.

I have respect for those who make money at art and do it well and smartly, because that commercial aspect keeps the world going and running, in a sense.

I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.

I'm not going to hold my breath because life goes on. Life is too short to sit around moaning about what could have been or what was.

In Europe they understand that the arts are incredibly important both culturally and economically.

I tend to like people that are generous and give other people the benefit of the doubt.

It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it.

It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world.

I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.

Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a part of your life without being something that earns.

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.

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.

Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world.

Sometimes, you have to go through a phase whether you like it or not.

There's a tolerance and this is a really big thing when it comes to really increasing the whole sense of getting something done and boosting the economy. Obviously not everything is going to be a bonanza, some things are going to be awful, but wouldn't it be great if we had a fantastic window dresser to do something with those windows on Fairfield green and those Victoria's Secret windows. I love girls in bras in panties, but these are just mannequins. Wouldn't it be great if some local artists got together and said, "Hey, Victoria's Secret, let's do something!" We need that.

Tom Tom Club has a whole different attitude and approach, not just musically but in performance. Some people said they liked it.

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.

We don't always know what we're doing. We often just get excited, put something down, and say, 'Oh, neat'.

We don't really have more than acouple of solos. It's just the way our music is put together.

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.

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.

We wore our safety pins on the inside of our clothes.

When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.