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All Quotes by author - Tom Petty

" A good song should give you a lot of images; you should be able to make your own little movie in your head to a good song. "

" An average show is two hours. And that's usually right up to the curfew or the union triple time. I always feel like I could have played a little longer or something, but it's hard for me to pay attention to anything for longer than that. "

" As time goes by, you seem to weed out the things that were making your life hard. "

" Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success. "

" Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person. "

" I could come home, and I would spend the rest of the night just lying on the floor or the sofa listening to albums. It was like a movie to me. I still do, really, and doing the radio show ensures that I'll be sitting there listening. "

" I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality. "

" I didn't think you could just become a rock and roll singer. "

" I don't eat fish and chicken and all that. But I will have some eggs. So I'm not technically a vegan. But I eat pretty sensibly, and before a tour, I will usually work out a lot. I'll get a trainer, or I have a guy I've known a long time. "

" I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular moment in time. "

" I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem. "

" I don't treat the band like I'm above them or that they're a hired hand for me. We've never worked that way. So I'm a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone. "

" I feel sorry for kids these days. They get so much homework. Remember the days when we put a belt around our two books and carried them home? Now they're dragging a suitcase. They have school all day, then homework from six until eleven. There's no time left to be creative. "

" If you're not getting older, you're dead. "

" I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy. "

" I like to be an optimist, but I like to be a realist, too. "

" I love doing my 'Buried Treasure' show. "

" I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated. "

" I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy. "

" I'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily. "

" In the mid-'60s, AM radio, pop radio, was just this incredible thing that played all kinds of music... You could hear Frank Sinatra right into the Yardbirds. The Beatles into Dean Martin. It was this amazing thing, and I miss it, in a way, because music has become so compartmentalized now, but in those days, it was all right in one spot. "

" I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down and play this and get the song over, I don't take it to the band, because most any good song, you can sit down and deliver it with a piano or a guitar. "

" I think if I'd quit years ago, I'd never have known what I was capable of doing. "

" I think, in America, for a long time you had groups that wanted to be stars more than they wanted to make music. "

" I think television's become a downright dangerous thing. It has no moral barometer whatsoever. If you want to talk about something that is all about money, just watch the television. "

" I think that if people realize that with an mp3, you're only getting five percent of the sound that's there. But when you hear the entire thing... I think it would save the music business. It's such a drastic change. "

" It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music. "

" It's hard for me... If I don't have a project going, I don't feel like I'm connected to anything. I don't even think it's that healthy for me. I like to get out of bed and have a purpose. "

" It's kind of a lonely work, because you just have to keep your pole in the water. I always had a little routine of going into whatever room I was using at the time to write in and just staying in there till I felt like I got a bite. "

" It's very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it's really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music. "

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