#red

I quit driving, I'm not retired. ↗

— Richard Petty

#i #i quit #quit #retired

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

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 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

I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that. ↗

— Madeleine Peyroux

#came #guitar #her #herself #i

It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world. ↗

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

#becomes #dignity #family #felt #forget

I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible. ↗

— Michael Phelps

#anything #historic #i #impossible #nothing

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#only #paint #same #theme #truth

Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz. ↗

— Michael Phelps

#compared #compliments #could #ever #get

A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

#becomes #better #climbing #expands #finer