#on

Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person. ↗

— Tom Petty

#find #go #happy #happy person #love

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. So I'm a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone. ↗

— Tom Petty

#alone #band #hand #having #hired

I think television's become a downright dangerous thing. It has no moral barometer whatsoever. If you want to talk about something that is all about money, just watch the television. ↗

— Tom Petty

#barometer #become #dangerous #dangerous thing #downright

Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it. ↗

— James Tobin

#graduate #great #i #i do #like

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

I blend my green drink every morning. I also fix my son a full-on American breakfast with bacon and toast. ↗

— Liz Phair

#american #bacon #blend #breakfast #drink

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

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