Tom Petty Quotes

At the end of the day, you're just phonograph records.

Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

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• My dad grew up wrestling. He knew Ken Shamrock, and I didn't know who he was at the time. So, he found out that Shamrock was in a gym in Reno, and he wanted me to go try a class with him. I tried it and fell in love the first day. Ken told me that I had potential in this sport, and he's the reason I kept at it.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Up
  • Time
  • Love

• I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Real
  • Me
  • Comedy

• Lipstick is iconic. It's the one product that marks out an era, and a certain lip colour can define a season. It makes me feel more 'done'. I wear a beige lip in the day, but red when I'm going somewhere - it makes that transition from day to night. I just slick it on; I don't bother with lipliner.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Done
  • Night
  • Day

• You have a burden going into any campaign when you're raising money to fund that effort because there's always a desire to spend more money than you have.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Money
  • Desire
  • Effort

• I'm not in favour of dividing Hindus and Sikhs. I'm not in favour of dividing Hindus and Christians. All the citizens, all the voters, are my countrymen.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Citizens
  • Voters
  • Favour

• There's always pressure on the second album - this one has to be the big one.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • Pressure
  • Albums

• I have so much more confidence in myself now than I ever did before.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Myself
  • Confidence

• I sit here before you trying to figure out how to pay a tax debt? If that's not like enough to slavery, I don't know.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Trying
  • Slavery
  • Pay

• Why can't I be friends with somebody who's gay? Why not? You can miss out on a lot by being so small-minded and stereotypical about people. It's stupid.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • People
  • Why
  • Friends

• When we travel we find how greatly our boyhood dreams are outstripped by reality.

  

  R. A. Lafferty
  • Reality
  • Travel

• I'll wear little dresses for a look and then it'll become only shorts for a while or only t-shirts for a while. So I go through different phases but I combine different things. I don't like things that draw too much attention. It's usually just things that complement me and aren't too loud.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • Different
  • Attention
  • Littles

• I don't debate with liars.

  

  Evo Morales
  • Debate
  • Liars

• A record is worth 10,000 live shows.

  

  Zachary Cole Smith
  • Live
  • Shows
  • Records

• It's good to listen to lots of different stuff, just whatever you like. The first two records I ever bought were Alice Cooper, Killer and Jethro Tull, Aqualung. That's two weird records to begin with, but I think they hold up well.

  

  James Hetfield Metallica
  • Stuff
  • Records
  • Listen

• I'd stopped doing music all of a sudden, and because of Chill and Jay and B, I got half of my album on a solo project. Then I get a call a week later and Jay is like, "Yo, Janet Jackson likes one of the records. We'll take five but are you cool with giving Janet one?" I was like, dude, we can do whatever you want to do.

  

  Bryce Wilson
  • Music
  • Records
  • Solo project

• We were all influenced by Lester Young. Listen to the records that he made with Count Basie. Nobody's got what he's got. He's still the daddy.

  

  John Haley Sims
  • Records
  • Influenced

• At the end of the day, you're just phonograph records.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Records
  • Phonograph