Tom Petty Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Tom Petty quotes and sayings page 2 (74 year old musician). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 39 we have for him.
“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.”
“When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music.”
“The energy of the crowd is insane. Twenty thousand people. It's the biggest jolt of adrenaline. It's very hard to explain. You know the old story about the woman lifting the car off her kid? It's in that realm. You can actually hurt yourself and not know it.”
“Most things I worry about never happen anyway.”
“I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.”
“TV does not care about you or what happens to you. It's downright bad for your health now, and that's not a far-out concept. I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.”
“I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.”
“We don't really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we've been taken for granted.”
“There used to be this real sense of community integrity in rock. It has really eroded. Everyone seems to be on their own now.”
“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.”
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