Tom Petty Quotes
There was no use pretending, no magic left to hear, all the music gave me was a craving for lite beer.
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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.
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Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
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Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.
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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.
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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.
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You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.
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I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
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I was very, very little - it was the first time I ever cooked on my own, with my mother's supervision - and I made scrambled eggs. I felt so accomplished, like magic!
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I hadn't seen that many movies that really go deep enough into the fears of playing music or the language that musicians can use to treat each other or, like, the way that you can see it dehumanize and the way that it can feel like boot camp.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.
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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.
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I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out.
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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.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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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.
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Great stories are still just great yarns. News remains the best human drama ever. Technology is not changing the story; it is just changing the way in which we deliver it.
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People magazine had been around for a short period of time, but nobody had thought about putting entertainment news on a nightly basis on television.
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To me, rap music is bigger than who's the coolest rapper, the biggest rapper. It's everything about your personality.
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I've been known to make out with girls from time to time. Couple drinks involved, you know. It's fun. And who knows? Maybe it'll go further someday. I don't know.
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It used to be that almost all innovation came from the U.S. and a small number of other developed countries. That's no longer the case, and as China and India grow, it's changing even more. Expect a lot more Chinese and Indian Nobel prizes in the future.
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There was no use pretending, no magic left to hear, all the music gave me was a craving for lite beer.
