Chris Frantz Quotes

• We used to really feel like the band was our family.

  Chris Frantz

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• Besides the two Christmas things, we’ve got a about a dozen new tracks we’re working on.

  Chris Frantz

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  Tags in Things, Working

• As much as we love playing the small clubs, we’d really like to get ourselves in front of a larger audience. I’m not talking about arenas or anything, but nice theaters and larger clubs.

  Chris Frantz

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  Tags in Nice, Playing, Anything, Audience

• 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

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  Tags in Anything, Connection, Wanted

• Everybody’s going through a lot of stress these days, no matter how well off you are and how many advantages you have, it’s a stressful time in everybody’s lives.

  Chris Frantz

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  Tags in Stress, Matter, Advantage

• I remember going for the first time to a place called The Roxy in New York because you can see people breakdancing there. That’s the only reason I went! It’s amazing, kids are still doing that.

  Chris Frantz

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  Tags in People, Amazing, Remember

• If a band is really good and the chemistry is unique, it should continue. But I guess David is just very happy doing his solo career. He’s got a different band every time he goes out.

  Chris Frantz

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  Tags in Happy, Doing, Career

• Our studio is kind of built into our home, so it’s a place you can ramble, and we can do a pretty good recording here. The band is really comfortable her.

  Chris Frantz

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  Tags in Pretty, Kind, Comfortable

• One always hopes that you’re going to have influence and staying power, but you never know.

  Chris Frantz

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Influenced, Hopes

• There is not that much of a generation gap these days.

  Chris Frantz

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  Tags in Generation, Much

• We get these overzealous young men and their girlfriends. It’s happened occasionally where one of them will lean up against the front of the stage and the guy is behind her, and it starts off as just dancing and then it gets into something more.

  Chris Frantz

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  Tags in Young, Occasionally, Something

• We’re the Tom Tom Club and our studio is the Clubhouse. It a way of making it a little more personal.

  Chris Frantz

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  Tags in Little, Personal

Chris Frantz (12)

Birth:	8th May, 1951
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Drummer, Record Producer

About

Charlton Christopher Frantz was born in Fort Campbell, Kentucky. He is an American drummer and record producer. He was the drummer for both Talking Heads and the Tom Tom Club. Frantz also convinced his girlfriend Tina Weymouth to join the band as bass guitarist. They were married in 1977. He and Weymouth produced the Happy Mondays' 1992 album, Yes Please! and the Scottish group Angelfish's self-titled album. He is ranked number 12 in Stylus Magazine's list of the 50 greatest rock drummers.

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