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.

I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

There are no more barbershop quartets wearing boaters, even though I still like them. Life goes on.

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

Muhabbat apni marzi se khulay pinjray main totay ki tarha bethnay ki salaahiyat hai. Muhabbat is ghulami ka toq hai jo insaan khud apnay ekhtyar se galay main dalta hai

I don’t own anything, but I have everything.

What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.

Like a garden that is carefully tended, the rewards are well worth the effort.

We still play three or four hits every night. Now, we don't play them like the record. We try to find new ways to do it.

Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.

Playing the running back position, your legs, that's your living, that's how you make your living. You have to have great thighs, knees, everything.

Now all that's left of me, is what I pretend to be. So together, but so broken up inside.

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

I'm the kind of person that when I really want something, I wish for it. I wish on shooting stars. I wish on lots of things.