American - Musician | October 2, 1950 -
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.
Tom Petty
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I like to be an optimist, but I like to be a realist, too.
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Most things I worry about never happen anyway.
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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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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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There's nothing like that feeling of having just written a song that you know is 'the song,' and you know it's really great, and you can't wait to share it with people; you can't wait to record it.
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I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.
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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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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.
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Making a record? You've got to have the song, then you create a record. I think it's the same with a live performance. If the material is strong, you're already 90% there. I always tell young people it's all about the music, the songs. Work on the songs, work on the songs, work on the songs.
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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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