Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can't stay long. — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit. — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
Music really isn’t supposed to be perfect. It’s all about people relating to each other and doing something that’s really from the… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
Rock isn't a young music anymore. I don't think it's necessarily even a youth-oriented music. — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
Making a record? You've got to have the song, then you create a record. I think it's the same with a live… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
When I was 15 or 16 playing in groups, we used to sit in the car and try to write the lyrics… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
There's nothing like that feeling of having just written a song that you know is 'the song,' and you know it's really… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
Rock n' roll was one thing, and then they chopped off the 'roll' and called it 'rock,' which became a sort of… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
I think that if people realize that with an mp3, you're only getting five percent of the sound that's there. But when… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in what I'm going to leave behind me than in making a big hit record. I've refined what I… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
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.… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
Songwriting ability is a gift. After a while, you come to realize, "I've really been blessed. I can write these things and… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick involved with it. It's pure… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
I started playing the bass because nobody else would play the bass, and then I got bumped up into singing because no… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, we didn't have any blues stations. I never heard Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters or any of… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
You're dealing in magic-it's this intangible thing that has to happen. And to seek it out too much might not be a… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
'Free Fallin'' is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn't become this huge anthem.… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
A good song should give you a lot of images; you should be able to make your own little movie in your… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
We haven't always been boy scouts, but we never lost sight of the music, Let me remind you that this ain't the… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
He [George Harrison] told me he really, really admired John [Lennon]. He probably wanted John's acceptance pretty bad, you know? — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
My mama was a rocker way back in fifty-three, buys them old records that they sell on TV. — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
When I go to see people, I always kind of hope they are going to play some kind of songs I know.… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
As time goes by, you seem to weed out the things that were making your life hard. — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
Take back your insurance, baby, nothing is guaranteed. Take back your acid rain, let your TV bleed. — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
The great thing about the Wilburys was that none of us had to take the heat by ourselves. I was just a member of… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
If you look around at America, that's one of its biggest problems is you have corporations that can never be pleased at a profit. — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
Even the losers get lucky sometimes. Even the losers keep a little bit of pride. They get lucky sometimes. — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
If you stretch your imagination, I'll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn't up for sale. — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can't stay long. — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
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