Tom Petty Quotes:
A good song should give you a lot of images; you should be able to make your own little movie in your head to a good song.
Tom Petty
An average show is two hours. And that’s usually right up to the curfew or the union triple time. I always feel like I could have played a little longer or something, but it’s hard for me to pay attention to anything for longer than that.
Tom Petty
As time goes by, you seem to weed out the things that were making your life hard.
Tom Petty
Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I’m concerned, that’s success.
Tom Petty
‘Free Fallin’ is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn’t become this huge anthem. But I’m grateful that people like it.
Tom Petty
Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you’ll be a happy person.
Tom Petty
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I could come home, and I would spend the rest of the night just lying on the floor or the sofa listening to albums. It was like a movie to me. I still do, really, and doing the radio show ensures that I’ll be sitting there listening.
Tom Petty
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I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.
Tom Petty
I don’t eat fish and chicken and all that. But I will have some eggs. So I’m not technically a vegan. But I eat pretty sensibly, and before a tour, I will usually work out a lot. I’ll get a trainer, or I have a guy I’ve known a long time.
Tom Petty
I don’t know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I’m at during a particular moment in time.
Tom Petty
I don’t treat the band like I’m above them or that they’re a hired hand for me. We’ve never worked that way. So I’m a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.
Tom Petty
I feel sorry for kids these days. They get so much homework. Remember the days when we put a belt around our two books and carried them home? Now they’re dragging a suitcase. They have school all day, then homework from six until eleven. There’s no time left to be creative.
Tom Petty
I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.
Tom Petty
I like to be an optimist, but I like to be a realist, too.
Tom Petty
I love doing my ‘Buried Treasure’ show.
Tom Petty
I love history, doesn’t matter what era, I’m fascinated.
Tom Petty
I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can’t sit down and play this and get the song over, I don’t take it to the band, because most any good song, you can sit down and deliver it with a piano or a guitar.
Tom Petty
I think that if people realize that with an mp3, you’re only getting five percent of the sound that’s there. But when you hear the entire thing… I think it would save the music business. It’s such a drastic change.
Tom Petty
I think, in America, for a long time you had groups that wanted to be stars more than they wanted to make music.
Tom Petty
I would never put my songs in a commercial.
Tom Petty
If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
Tom Petty
I’m barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
Tom Petty
It’s funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can’t afford the music.
Tom Petty
It’s hard for me… If I don’t have a project going, I don’t feel like I’m connected to anything. I don’t even think it’s that healthy for me. I like to get out of bed and have a purpose.
Tom Petty
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