Tom Petty Quotes - Page 6

I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated.

He [George Harrison] told me he really, really admired John [Lennon]. He probably wanted John's acceptance pretty bad, you know?

Whatever you're looking for, don't come around here no more.

We haven't always been boy scouts, but we never lost sight of the music, Let me remind you that this ain't the end.

She grew up hard and she grew up fast, in the age of television.

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

It just seems to useless to have to work so hard, and nothing ever really seem to come from it.

I want to be successful. Not just money. Just making a successful record and a successful show... I could feel successful without selling a million records.

There was rock and roll across the dial, when I think of her it makes me smile.

It's always been great to be onstage. It's really effortless up there. It's not a lot of work.

If 20,000 people start to sing, you tend to go along with it.

Eddie waited 'til he finished high school, he went to Hollywood, got a tattoo.

The music has to be affordable. It's the common man that keeps it going, and if you price it out of his realm, it becomes a thing of the elite.

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

Most magic is a trick, an illusion. But [when The Beatles played the Ed Sullivan Show], this was real. Man oh man, was it real.

My mama was a rocker way back in fifty-three, buys them old records that they sell on TV.