Tom Petty Quotes

• The energy of the crowd is insane. Twenty thousand people. It’s the biggest jolt of adrenaline. It’s very hard to explain. You know the old story about the woman lifting the car off her kid? It’s in that realm. You can actually hurt yourself and not know it.

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• Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There’s not some trick involved with it. It’s pure and it’s real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.

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• I’ve never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I’m pleasantly surprised when it does.

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• I’m not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.

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• I would never put my songs in a commercial.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don’t take life for granted any more. I’m really glad to be here.

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• When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you’ve always got a different ache or pain.

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• When I was a kid, we didn’t have any blues stations. I never heard Howlin’ Wolf or Muddy Waters or any of those people until the Stones had come along, and I took it upon myself to find out who these people were that they were covering.

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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.

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• What I’ve learned about marriage: You need to have each other’s back; you have to be a kind of team going through life.

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• There used to be this real sense of community integrity in rock. It has really eroded. Everyone seems to be on their own now.

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• You and I will meet again, When we’re least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won’t say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again.

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• We don’t really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we’ve been taken for granted.

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• TV does not care about you or what happens to you. It’s downright bad for your health now, and that’s not a far-out concept. 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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• The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.

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• Most things I worry about never happen anyway.

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Tom Petty (26)

Birth:	20th October, 1950
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Musician, Lyricist, Singer

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