33 Quotes by Chris Frantz

I'd like to thank the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for giving this band a happy ending.

I'm horrified. I know that Charlie had some pretty big disappointments in his life. The world of Hollywood movies and television can be pretty rough for a person.

We have such a good band and we wanted to record while we were all still together, before anybody went off to work with some superstar, or whatever.

We enjoy traditional music, ... but we like the stuff that is a little bit challenging and edgy. You can also say that a lot of the Tom Tom Club stuff has a real sweetness to it. We're certainly not opposed to sweetness in music.

We have a large band with eight people.

We've lived here for 20 years, so it's about time, ... Seriously, it's a great honor and it's a good way for us to promote the arts in Fairfield County, and promote the town of Fairfield in particular Without art, we're just another white bread community. These people who are working are mostly volunteers and it's nice that they're doing that instead of just being another person at the soccer field.

When I was in college, I studied painting. I thought, I'll do this rock 'n' roll thing for a few years. But I just haven't done that well enough yet.

It was a happenin' place -- the Ramones lived there, Debbie Harry, Ornette Coleman, Allen Ginsburg. ... It was a time when we just went for it.

Afterwards, David said, 'I can play something other than cacophony,' ... I'd been in a band in high school, and I'd been missing it.