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title: "2 Great Onstage Quotes by 2 authors"
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> [It's always been great to be onstage. It's really effortless up there. It's not a lot of work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-petty/it-s-always-been-great-to-be-onstage-it-s-really-effortless-up-there/)

[Tom Petty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-petty/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af5/tom-petty-2030_effortless_it-s-always-been-great-to-be-onstage-it_638460.png)

> [Being on the road has about 2 1/2 hours a day that are really great, and that's when you're onstage. The other 21 1/2 hours are very boring... It becomes like a void, and we chose to fill it with all the wrong things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-felder/being-on-the-road-has-about-2-1-2-hours-a-day-that-are-really-great/)

[Don Felder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-felder/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a9b/don-felder-16328_boring_being-on-the-road-has-about-2-1-2-hours_1704671.png)

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