#on

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

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

Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier. ↗

— William Petty

#every #merchant #navigator #only #seaman

Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the Mother, that the state by killing, mutilating, or imprisoning their members do withal punish themselves. ↗

— William Petty

#consequence #father #here #killing #labor

Money is the best rule of commerce. ↗

— William Petty

#best #commerce #money #rule

It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut. ↗

— John L. Phillips

#becoming #career #goals #happened #kind

I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration. ↗

— William Petty

#demonstration #hope #i #living #man

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. ↗