Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Quotes
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The people that call me to play on records call me because they think that I will suit their music. And the people whose music I suit are by and large people that I'm a fan of.
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There's a freeway running through the yard.
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Oh yeah, alright, take it easy baby, make it last all night. She was an American Girl.
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If you don't run, you rust.
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I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.
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I did enjoy Nashville a lot of the time, because I made really good friends who were really good songwriters, and they would be a joy to hang out with.
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I think that with Bob Dylan around, we're living in an era where we have Whitman presenting new work, we have Dickens presenting new work, we have Yeats and Shakespeare presenting new work. It's that level.
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I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.
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Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.
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Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
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Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
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Just wondering, waiting, worrying about some silly little things, that just don't add up to nothin'.
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I loved Mal Evans holding one note down on You Won't See Me from Rubber Soul.
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Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level.
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I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
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I'm not interested in the TV much. I quit watching the news a couple years ago and my outlook on life has gotten a whole lot better.
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I'm playing 10 feet from Mike Campbell every night. I look across the stage, there's Howie. Tom's in the middle and we're playing all this stuff I love. It's great.
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Most magic is a trick, an illusion. But [when The Beatles played the Ed Sullivan Show], this was real. Man oh man, was it real.
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If you look around at America, that's one of its biggest problems is you have corporations that can never be pleased at a profit.
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But not me, baby, I've got you to save me.
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I was just writing songs because, if a song shows up, you've gotta write it. I didn't know what to do with them. I didn't have any faith in my voice.
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I've always written songs since I was a kid - always.
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When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music.