Tina Weymouth
Tina Weymouth
Martina Michèle "Tina" Weymouthis an American musician, best known as a founding member and bassist of the new wave group Talking Heads and its side project Tom Tom Club, which she co-founded with husband and Talking Heads drummer, Chris Frantz...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBassist
Date of Birth22 November 1950
CityCoronado, CA
CountryUnited States of America
ideas starting-over people
I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.
song sadness thinking
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.
voice rocks sight
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.
order perception world
Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world.
attitude people different
Tom Tom Club has a whole different attitude and approach, not just musically but in performance. Some people said they liked it.
goes-on barbershop quartets
There are no more barbershop quartets wearing boaters, even though I still like them. Life goes on.
girl artist tolerance
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.
down-and excited neat
We don't always know what we're doing. We often just get excited, put something down, and say, 'Oh, neat'.
sticks instinct
Stick to your instincts.
keys generosity band
Generosity is the key to all relationships. To friendships and bands. That's the golden rule.
play bass
I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech.
music groove dialogue
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.
life-is-too-short goes-on moaning
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.
real light cartoon
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.