38+ Tina Weymouth Quotes On Culture, David Byrne And Creative

Tina Weymouth is an American musician and songwriter, best known as the bassist and co-founding member of the new wave band Talking Heads. She also co-founded the Tom Tom Club with her husband Chris Frantz and has played bass for the Ramones and the Pretenders. Weymouth is a three-time Grammy Award-winner and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Talking Heads in 2002. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Tina Weymouth on love, culture, life.

Top 10 Tina Weymouth Quotes

1. I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.
2. Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world.
3. When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.
4. If you have this passion for music, you don't stop doing it - it chooses you and doesn't release you.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. There are no more barbershop quartets wearing boaters, even though I still like them. Life goes on.
8. We don't always know what we're doing. We often just get excited, put something down, and say, 'Oh, neat'.
9. 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.
10. We wore our safety pins on the inside of our clothes.

Tina Weymouth Short Quotes

• It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it.
• I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.
• I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech.
• It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world.
• Being able to allow people to be who they are without trying to change them is important.
• Sometimes, you have to go through a phase whether you like it or not.
• I tend to like people that are generous and give other people the benefit of the doubt.
• In Europe they understand that the arts are incredibly important both culturally and economically.
• Generosity is the key to all relationships. To friendships and bands. That's the golden rule.
• Even the Beatles found it hard to escape their image; they were trapped by it.

Tina Weymouth Quotes About 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. — Tina Weymouth

I would really love to work with Paul McCartney. Isn't that arrogant? — Tina Weymouth

You learn just as much from your failures. Sometimes you love your failures even more. — Tina Weymouth

Tina Weymouth Quotes About Music

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

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. — Tina Weymouth

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

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

Tina Weymouth Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

I think the idea of having the show divided into two parts was that Tom Tom Club opened for Talking Heads in Europe, and it was the best we'd ever had as an opening act. — Tina Weymouth

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. — Tina Weymouth

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. — Tina Weymouth

David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters. — Tina Weymouth

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. — Tina Weymouth

When we were making Speaking in Tongues and Remain in Light, we were jamming. From that we were taking the best bits and then recording and improvising on top of those. — Tina Weymouth

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

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

Stick to your instincts. — Tina Weymouth

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

Life Lessons by Tina Weymouth

1. Tina Weymouth taught us that hard work and dedication can lead to great success, as she rose to fame with her band Talking Heads and her solo career.
2. She also showed us that it is possible to create something unique and innovative, as her music was a mix of punk, funk, and new wave.
3. Lastly, she showed us that it is important to stay true to yourself and your vision, as she never compromised her artistic integrity.