Tom Petty Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
As much as I don't want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they're not pleased with what I'm presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.
Wale
-
Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
Young Jeezy
-
Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.
Gavin Bryars
-
It's always strange being a kid on the set, because you're treated like an equal when you're working. But then when you break, the other actors go back to their trailers to take naps and drink beer, and I have to, like, go do school.
Natalie Portman
-
I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.
P. J. Harvey
-
You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.
Sally Field
-
I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.
Obie Trice
-
My sound is, at its core, a mix of things. Definitely an imperfect mix, but one that incorporates elements of the music I love - a bit of indie rock, super rhythmic rapping, and lots of synths.
K. Flay
-
I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out.
Caitlin Rose
-
I think we have gotten to a point as Americans, unfortunately, where we take for granted the magic that life brings and that life is really special and every life matters. We tend to go through life but not take the moment to step back and remember you are here, right now, for a very finite amount of time.
Irvin Mayfield
-
Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
Karl Lagerfeld
-
My whole drive is to make sure that music is a common space where we search for beauty and share it. It needs to be louder than any conversation. That's where we have to go as a human race.
Abigail Washburn
-
The entire process seems simple and natural, i.e., possesses the naturalness of a shallow rationalism.
Karl Marx
-
Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.
Oscar Wilde
-
The deal we made was that if we would change our law to invite them to come to South Dakota - that's what they wanted, the invitation - if we would change our law to invite them to come to South Dakota, he would guarantee South Dakota 400 Citibank jobs.
Bill Janklow
-
She must protect herself. There would be no one to do it for her. A plan started to prick up its ears inside her, slowly, but getting stronger.
Catherynne M. Valente
-
People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale. Fortunately, political and religious leaders stopped barbecuing astronomers for saying so, turning their spits with human-rights activists instead.
Nathan Myhrvold
-
There was no use pretending, no magic left to hear, all the music gave me was a craving for lite beer.
Tom Petty
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
