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When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music. -- Tina Weymouth
My favorite band is probably The Cure. We can throw Talking Heads in there too, I listen to them a lot. But The Cure. -- Analeigh Tipton
I can't think of any musician or producer who has influenced me more than Brian Eno. From when he was in Roxy Music, producing Devo, the Talking Heads and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. -- Moby
Life is a musical influence in my experience. But as far as actual music and actual bands, uh, I'll just look at my little collection here. Let's see. Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, U2, The Talking Heads, Prince and the Revolution, Michael Jackson's Thriller was a huge one. -- Jeremy Enigk
I mean, the trouble with some of the kind of relationship movies I've done, is there's only so many ways you can shoot a conversation. I was really tired of talking heads. -- Lawrence Kasdan
By the time Talking Heads were starting, my feeling was to throw out everything and start from scratch onstage; strip it down to as close to zero as you can get and then you can make it yours. -- David Byrne
I don't think that the punk sound really became the punk sound until much later. The punk era wasn't really just one musical sound. There are a lot of differences among Television, the Ramones, and the Talking Heads. -- Debbie Harry
There are people who tell you to shut up because you're just a celebrity, but pundits, talking heads, they're every bit the celebrity and a lot of them aren't any more qualified than the average man on the street. -- Kevin Bacon
Punk-rock records came out and you bought whatever you could find. But Devo didn't happen for another three years. Sex Pistols didn't tour the States until '78. At that time, for me, it was really about CBGB, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, the Ramones, and Television. -- Michael Stipe
I've had production offers with artists I really admire, and oftentimes that doesn't work out. Sometimes it does, but... For instance I was asked if I wanted to do a Talking Heads album back in the late '70s, early '80s, and I was already working on a different project and didn't have time, so I never got the opportunity to work with them. -- Todd Rundgren
When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them. -- Bat for Lashes
While my friends were busy listening to the Talking Heads, Police, and B-52s, I was busy teaching myself to program on the Atari. -- Steven Sinofsky
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
Occasionally, I hanker for the time when I sold more records, but I don't sit and drool about it. When I do look at early footage of Talking Heads, I realise I was just a wreck. -- David Byrne
I guess, for me, what started me getting real excited about music was the New York punk and new-wave scene. All those bands looked back to the Velvet Underground and the Stooges and the Modern Lovers as well. But that was back when Television were punk, and the Talking Heads were punk. -- Dean Wareham
A friend of mine introduced me to Thurston Moore because she thought I would like him. He was playing with the tallest band in the world, the Coachmen. They were sort of like Talking Heads, jangly guitar, Feelies guitar. Anyway, it was love at first sight. His band broke up that night. And we started playing. -- Kim Gordon
I make up cassettes all the time - to take on the road with me - a song from this album, a song from that album. That's the way I listen to music; it's like one of those K Tel things: it's from all over. I listen to Fred Astaire, I listen to African folk music, I listen to Talking Heads. -- Robert Palmer
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I don't want the stage. I'm terrified of giving these talking heads some distraction, some excuse to jeopardize, smear, and delegitimize a very important movement. -- Edward Snowden
The thing I've learned traveling through the United States is that the people in each city are usually awesome, it's generally the 'talking heads' that give us trouble. -- Christopher Sieber
The last thing I want to become is one of those talking heads where everything is satiny smooth and you know what the next question is going to be -- Isaac Mizrahi
One of the challenges was to make a cinematic movie about literally talking heads and to try to make it feel like something you want to see in a theater. -- Morgan Neville
The trouble with the British is that they are not interested in ideas. If Jesus came back today and offered to speak for an hour on British television, they would say, "What! Another talking head? -- John Cleese
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
I don't know how much influence we really had, because we never put our pictures on the albums or anything and we never really promoted the Talking Heads connection, because we wanted to keep it separate from Talking Heads. -- Chris Frantz
One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on substance, on the issues. But you have to give the victory to Bush because he seems presidential. -- Bradley Whitford
The Islamophobia phobes, (ph) the writers and the editors and the talking heads who deny an existence of evil while blaming those who speak up. There no difference - different than the apologists for communism. As communism killed millions, they, they denied it. -- Greg Gutfeld
I intend more of a kinship with silent films than more modern film. I like the old cinema. My films are more of a hybrid - a different style of filmmaking to what I call talking head movies. Some people don't get it. Especially the more academic types. -- George Lucas
There are lots of guns and action in my drawings, and part of that is just to make them more interesting. Because you can go through a whole film and it's mostly talking heads and little else until the action scenes, and they're usually violence or physical stuff. Same with baseball, or any sport. Except I find pitching and batting are visually very striking. -- Raymond Pettibon
I think in daily newspapers, the way comic strips are treated, it's as if newspaper publishers are going out of their way to kill the medium. They're printing the comics so small that most strips are just talking heads, and if you look back at the glory days of comic strips, you can see that they were showcases for some of the best pop art ever to come out. -- Matt Groening
I'm a fan of Talking Heads going way back. -- Fred Armisen
Not winning a title gives fuel to sportswriters and talking heads who question an athlete's true value. -- Don Yaeger
I don't normally make documentaries. I'm a drama director. I've made a few short docs, but I don't like talking heads or 'voice of God' narrators. -- Asif Kapadia
I made several short films with very little dialogue. I'm still not a fan of talking heads. My stories are told with images as much as possible. -- Asif Kapadia
The last thing I want to become is one of those talking heads where everything is satiny smooth and you know what the next question is going to be. -- Isaac Mizrahi
My team and I used the actual footage to create a three-act story of the life of Ayrton Senna. There are no talking heads and no voiceover. Senna narrates his own epic, dramatic, thrilling journey. -- Asif Kapadia
Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them. -- Richard Dooling
There's always the question when you're making a documentary if the talking heads will work. -- Heidi Ewing
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Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way. -- Salman Rushdie
Having a conversation on a landline is more intimate than talking to someone in person. Your voices are so clear and close - you're in each other's heads. -- Rainbow Rowell
I'm just a sucker even talking to you guys. I should be ready to rip your heads off your necks. But it's just not the right thing to do -- Mike Tyson

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