Being able to allow people to be who they are without trying to change them is important. Tina Weymouth More Quotes by Tina Weymouth More Quotes From Tina Weymouth Even the Beatles found it hard to escape their image; they were trapped by it. Tina Weymouth trappedhardfound I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar. Tina Weymouth bassguitarplayer If you have this passion for music, you don't stop doing it - it chooses you and doesn't release you. Tina Weymouth releasepassionmusic It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it. Tina Weymouth keep-learninghardperfect Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make. Tina Weymouth choicesgolfart 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. Tina Weymouth groovedialoguemusic 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. Tina Weymouth mentorguitarkids I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech. Tina Weymouth bassplay We wore our safety pins on the inside of our clothes. Tina Weymouth safety-pinsclothessafety 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. Tina Weymouth moaninglife-is-too-shortgoes-on There are no more barbershop quartets wearing boaters, even though I still like them. Life goes on. Tina Weymouth barbershopquartetsgoes-on 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. Tina Weymouth sadnesssongthinking It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take as much time off as we did, eight years, booking agents don't know if you'll draw. Tina Weymouth eightrocksyears 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. Tina Weymouth changenamesart When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music. Tina Weymouth musicmenthinking In Europe they understand that the arts are incredibly important both culturally and economically. Tina Weymouth importanteuropeart We don't always know what we're doing. We often just get excited, put something down, and say, 'Oh, neat'. Tina Weymouth neatexciteddown-and 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. Tina Weymouth lightrealchange You learn just as much from your failures. Sometimes you love your failures even more. Tina Weymouth love-yousometimes It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world. Tina Weymouth respecttalentworld
