Tom Petty Quotes
We haven't always been boy scouts, but we never lost sight of the music, Let me remind you that this ain't the end.
Quotes to Explore
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As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.
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I think with girlfriends, you always want your girlfriends to make the decisions for themselves, not based on a boy, not based on anything other than, 'Is this what you want?' Is this you know what you want to do?' And that's real support to me.
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When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.
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In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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There's so much music in Austin, and it's all so different.
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My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
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And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever they want with it, it's kind of hard to resist certain opportunities, especially in the record market now.
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
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The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
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When I am stressed, my No. 1 reliever is my music.
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When people think girl adventurers, they tend to think of a spunky, plucky tom-boy with a chip on her shoulder. I'm not saying that this makes for a dull character, but I think other types of adventurous girls exist. It's easy to fall into well-established tropes, believing that the tropes of a genre define the genre itself.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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I love playing and working on music. It is something that I feel really lucky to be able to spend my life doing. And I don't sleep much!
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The Gershwin legacy is extraordinary because George Gershwin died in 1937, but his music is as fresh and vital today as when he originally created it.
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I watch a lot of professional skating, and I am really looking forward to going to nationals.
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It's a simple quality of human nature that people prefer to choose to do things rather than be ordered to do them. In fact, as soon as you tell me I have to do something - give a speech, attend a banquet, go to Cannes - I immediately start looking for ways to avoid doing it.
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We haven't always been boy scouts, but we never lost sight of the music, Let me remind you that this ain't the end.
