Tom Petty Quotes

The music has to be affordable. It's the common man that keeps it going, and if you price it out of his realm, it becomes a thing of the elite.

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• I know what to do and I go and execute.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Know
  • Go
  • Execute

• I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Great
  • Song
  • Band

• What goes for sex goes double for politics.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Sex
  • Politics
  • Double

• Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Culture
  • You
  • Conservative

• I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.

  

  K. Flay
  • Different
  • Important
  • Think

• Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Thoughts
  • Blind
  • Content

• I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Real
  • Book
  • Think

• I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Up
  • Practice
  • Guitar

• I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Pretty
  • Never
  • Looking

• For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Same
  • Circumstances

• It should simply be an empirical matter whether the climate is changing or not and whether we're responsible. But the various sides of the debate have now become so tribal that it's no longer a matter of changing our views as more information comes in.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Matter
  • Information
  • Debate

• We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Night
  • Day
  • Ocean

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Will
  • Laws
  • Thieves

• The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

  

  Karl Marx
  • History
  • Class
  • Struggles

• There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Meaningful

• It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • People
  • Important
  • Where

• I want to cause a change with my life, make the world a little better.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • Life
  • World
  • Change

• When I made the decision to stop working regionally and just focus on being in New York, part of the reason that instigated that choice was a desire to work on new plays and know what it was to originate a part.

  

  Jayne Houdyshell
  • Work
  • Stop
  • Desire

• When you come back to a country that you've left, you're in a very peculiar situation because, in a way, you don't belong to that country any more, even though when I'm in America I feel I don't belong there either.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Country
  • America
  • Peculiar

• Man, y'know, I'm a music guy. I like a lot of different things. It depends on the time of the day and the situation.

  

  LaMarr Woodley
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • People
  • Rest
  • Knew

• Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Time
  • Church
  • Myself

• The music has to be affordable. It's the common man that keeps it going, and if you price it out of his realm, it becomes a thing of the elite.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Music
  • Price
  • Realm