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Tom Petty Quotes

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“It’s sometimes physically hard. But then the lights go down, you hear the crowd and you’re all better. You feel like, ‘OK, let’s do it.’”
— Tom Petty, Tom Petty's final interview: There was supposed to have been so much more
Tagged: Hard Work, perseverance, Musicians, Touring, concerts, tom petty, rock hall of fame, classic rock bands
“You have four years to be irresponsible here, relax. Work is for people with jobs. You'll never remember class time, but you'll remember the time you wasted hanging out with your friends. So stay out late. Go out with your friends on a Tuesday when you have a paper due on Wednesday. Spend money you don't have. Drink 'til sunrise. The work never ends, but college does.”
— Tom Petty, Conversations With Tom Petty
Tagged: College, Work, Friends, Fun
“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.”
— Tom Petty, Tom Petty's final interview: There was supposed to have been so much more
Tagged: Writing, Artists, tom petty, rock hall of fame, classic rock bands
“But I don't know, maybe [the fire] had something to do with the song, like 'I Won't Back Down' and things. Because I felt really elated that they didn't get me. ... The thought that was going through my head [was] 'Whoa, you bastards, you didn't get me.'”
— Tom Petty, Tom Petty: The Fresh Air Interview
Tagged: surviving, Arson, Music
“There’s a holiness there. If that were to go away, I don’t think I would be interested in it, and I don’t think they would. We’re a real rock ’n’ roll band — always have been. And to us, in the era we came up in, it was a religion in a way. It was more than commerce, it wasn’t about that. It was about something much greater.”
— Tom Petty, Tom Petty's final interview: There was supposed to have been so much more
Tagged: Writing, Artists, Commercial art, Capitalism, Spirituality, Music, tom petty, rock hall of fame, classic rock bands
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