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
years eight rocks
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.
love-you sometimes
You learn just as much from your failures. Sometimes you love your failures even more.
people trying important
Being able to allow people to be who they are without trying to change them is important.
phases sometimes you-like-it
Sometimes, you have to go through a phase whether you like it or not.
perfect keep-learning hard
It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it.
player bass-guitar want
I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.
art europe important
In Europe they understand that the arts are incredibly important both culturally and economically.
music men thinking
When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.
passion release passion-for-music
If you have this passion for music, you don't stop doing it - it chooses you and doesn't release you.
found trapped hard
Even the Beatles found it hard to escape their image; they were trapped by it.
music together way
We don't really have more than acouple of solos. It's just the way our music is put together.