Love Quote by Tina Weymouth

Weymouth’s line lands like a backstage confession, not a motivational poster. Coming from a musician who helped build Talking Heads’ taut, brainy grooves, it’s an argument for missteps as raw material. “You learn” is the respectable part; the sneakier, more revealing move is “Sometimes you love your failures even more.” That’s not self-help optimism. It’s a performer admitting that the crooked take, the wrong note, the idea that collapses mid-song can carry a strange intimacy: proof you were reaching, not repeating.

The intent feels practical and protective. In music, “failure” isn’t just bombing onstage. It’s the demo that never becomes a track, the arrangement that fights the band, the gig where the room won’t give you anything back. Weymouth reframes those moments as information-rich and, crucially, identity-forming. Success can be clean and externally legible; failure is personal. You remember it in your hands. You can trace exactly where your taste outran your technique.

The subtext is also a quiet rejection of perfectionism and the myth of the effortless genius. Loving a failure means you value process over polish, and risk over reputation. For artists who came up in the late-70s/early-80s downtown ecosystem - where experimentation was currency and embarrassment was basically tuition - that stance isn’t sentimental. It’s survival. The failures are where the interesting choices live, before they get sanded down into “what works.”