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Tom Petty Quotes

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.

Tom Petty

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: October 2, 1950

Topics

Funny Music People Internet You Why

Now from a distance, I look back on what the Corps taught me: to think like men of action, and to act like men of thought!

Jim Mattis

Men Me Action Think Thought Look

I've never considered myself an actor; I get much more immediate satisfaction singing. If you sing good, people clap. On television, you never know whether you've done well or not.

Jim Nabors

Good Myself People Singing You Know

I never went to drama school.

Matthew Lewis

School Drama Never Drama School

Ron Howard is a great filmmaker and also a great storyteller in 60- and 30-minute shows, so why isn't he going to be a great storyteller in 10-minute pieces?

Jeffrey Katzenberg

Great Why Pieces Filmmaker Going He

I was really, really, really enthusiastic as a kid. I was up for anything. I was hugely into music and theatre. I was a big musical theatre kid; I loved reading.

Amanda Marshall

Music Theatre Reading Loved Kid Big

Being a leading man... that's like saying, 'I want to be astronaut.' That's not going to happen.

Steve Carell

Man Saying Want Happen Being Going

Fear of decision-making is one thing I personally resist, and I'm trying to encourage others to resist as well.

Steve Easterbrook

Fear Trying Others Decision-Making

You're gonna see me on your TV. You're gonna see me everywhere. I'm gonna be a common household name. Smokepurpp, Lil Purpp. Remember the name.

Smokepurpp

Me Name Remember You See Common

When you are what we call a 'minority writer,' a writer of color, a writer of any kind of difference, there is some kind of presumption of autobiography in everything you produce. And I find that really maddening, and I resist that.

Rumaan Alam

Color You Find Kind Everything Call

When I go out, I'm not going out to find a man; I'm going out to dance the night away with my best friends.

Mollie King

Best Dance Man Night Friends Find

Many classical musicians lack pulse and rhythmical strength and precision, so for us it was very important to acquire and learn those.

Luka Sulic

Strength Learn Musicians Important

I'm obsessed with the thought of making things happen... Ultimately, I do it because I'm scared. I don't ever, ever, ever want to be poor again.

Donna Brazile

Thought Things Happen Want Poor