Latest Tom Petty Quotes from Interviews

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• I'm not trying to be cool. I have a problem with lights. I have one eye that's become super-sensitive to lighting, so I do wear sunglasses quite a bit.

  Tom Petty

  Eye, Light, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I started playing the bass because nobody else would play the bass, and then I got bumped up into singing because no one else really wanted to sing. So I learned how to sing and I wrote the songs, so I tended to get the most attention.

  Tom Petty

  Song, Play, Singing

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck.

  Tom Petty

  Successful, Thinking, Luck

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I have never been comfortable being the front man.

  Tom Petty

  Men, Fronts, Comfortable

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I think sometimes maybe you're going to connect with the audience more than others, but the journey is about getting all there is to get out of this group of people.

  Tom Petty

  Journey, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I'm actually better on the guitar than when I started, I think, because I've had so much time with it and I still practice and I love to do it and I love to sing.

  Tom Petty

  Thinking, Guitar, Practice

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I've always had a great love for the blues.

  Tom Petty

  Great Love

  Source: www.pbs.org

• If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music.

  Tom Petty

  Night, Play, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I always tell my kids, "Find something that you love and within that you'll find some job that you can do and you'll always be happy. You'll go to a job that you want to go to."

  Tom Petty

  Jobs, Kids, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

• If you look around at America, that's one of its biggest problems is you have corporations that can never be pleased at a profit.

  Tom Petty

  America, Looks, Corporations

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I like making money like anybody else, and I'm paid well, but I think there is a point at which you can out-price your audience or your base.

  Tom Petty

  Thinking, Making Money, Wells

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I think it's important to always offer something new.

  Tom Petty

  Thinking, Important, Something New

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I wouldn't want to get stuck being an oldie-goldie group, but I don't mind. I think all the trouble you go through these days to go to one of these concerts, I think I owe them a bit of what they came to hear.

  Tom Petty

  Thinking, Mind, Groups

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I love the music. I'm never, ever tired of playing it.

  Tom Petty

  Tired

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Tom Petty

  People, Ifs

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I'm always having fun. Playing is fun. Music is fun.

  Tom Petty

  Fun, Having Fun, Music Is

  Source: www.pbs.org

• The truth is that if you play on TV there is always a sponsor. There is no way around it. I've already passed on so much money I don't worry about it anymore.

  Tom Petty

  Play, Worry, Way

  "Tom Petty Talks Super Bowl, 'Long-Overdue Heartbreakers Record'". www.rollingstone.com. December 4, 2007.

• 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.

  Tom Petty

  Successful, Records, Want

  Source: ffanzeen.blogspot.com

• I'm not any happier anywhere than when I'm in the studio. I'm over the moon about it. It keeps me young, it keeps me feeling like I have some purpose.

  Tom Petty

  Moon, Feelings, Purpose

  "Tom Petty: A Portrait Of The Artist". The Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. November 28, 2005.

• I'm more interested in what I'm going to leave behind me than in making a big hit record. I've refined what I do for a long time. If getting better at it means it goes over the heads of those who only wanted to party, then so be it.

  Tom Petty

  Party, Mean, Long

• I'm certainly not a Robin Hood, I'm not that way. I don't want to come through, burn everybody for $200 a ticket and then they can't afford to come see me again. Plus, I just don't think it's right. I don't think we need that much money. I just do what seems like the logical thing to do.

  Tom Petty

  Thinking, Tickets, Robins

• I didn't worry about my career ending, but there were days where I felt pretty beat up by it all and just pretty tired, because they didn't make it easy for me. And coming right off the last lawsuit, it was the last thing I wanted to get involved in. When it was over, we didn't really celebrate, we were just exhausted. I lost all interest in the record business and never wanted to do anything except hand in a record again.

  Tom Petty

  Tired, Careers, Hands

  "Tom Petty: A Portrait Of The Artist". The Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. November 28, 2005.

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

  Tom Petty

  Effortless

• 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.

  Tom Petty

  Men, Common, Realms

  "Tom Petty: A Portrait Of The Artist". Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. November 28, 2005.

• Songwriting ability is a gift. After a while, you come to realize, "I've really been blessed. I can write these things and it makes me happy, and it makes millions of people happy." It's an obligation, it's bigger than you. It's the only true magic I know. It's not pulling a rabbit out of a hat; it's real. It's your soul floating out to theirs.

  Tom Petty

  Real, Blessed, Writing