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If you're not getting older, you're dead. ↗

— Tom Petty

#getting #getting older #older #you

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. ↗

— Tom Petty

#already #always #create #got #i

Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick involved with it. It's pure and it's real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things. ↗

— Tom Petty

#does #encountered #heals #i #incredible

The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song together, and it wasn't that bad! The writing came natural to me. ↗

— Tom Petty

#bad #came #electric #electric guitar #first

The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit. ↗

— Tom Petty

#business #care #compared #innocent #know

There used to be this real sense of community integrity in rock. It has really eroded. Everyone seems to be on their own now. ↗

— Tom Petty

#eroded #everyone #integrity #now #own

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. ↗

— Tom Petty

#been #bell #decided #done #giving

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. ↗

— Tom Petty

#any #blues #come #covering #find

I love the lambs, not the sheep. ↗

— Roger Peyrefitte

#i love #lambs #love #sheep

I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations. ↗

— Madeleine Peyroux

#difficult #friends #guitar #had #i