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

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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.

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

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We were playing in front of 1,000 Hollywood people and they were all the friends of the business. Hollywood is a very weird place.

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

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

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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.

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Talking Heads was our identity it was who we were. Tom Tom Club was an outlet that we created, so that we wouldn't step on Talking Heads.

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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.

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We always wanted more than one level. We never want to be obtuse or put things in code. We've always wanted to communicate and be accessible.

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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.

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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.

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

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If you have this passion for music, you don't stop doing it - it chooses you and doesn't release you.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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We have done counseling to learn that there are times you just don't bring work home. There has to be a moment when you decompress.

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

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

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

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