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Tom Petty
American
Musician
Born:
Oct 20
,
1950
Died:
Oct 2
,
2017
Me
Music
People
Think
Time
You
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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
Life
Music
Pure
My Life
Incredible
Trick
Some
Magic
Only
Involved
Heals
Does
Real
Encountered
Moves
Things
I feel sorry for kids these days. They get so much homework. Remember the days when we put a belt around our two books and carried them home? Now they're dragging a suitcase. They have school all day, then homework from six until eleven. There's no time left to be creative.
Tom Petty
Time
Day
Home
Creative
Remember
School
Sorry
Homework
Suitcase
Our
Books
All Day
Kids
Carried
No Time
Put
Feel
Days
Until
Around
Left
Get
Six
Them
Then
Much
Now
Eleven
Two
Dragging
Belt
As time goes by, you seem to weed out the things that were making your life hard.
Tom Petty
Life
Time
You
Weed
Out
Seem
Making
Were
Time Goes By
Goes
Your
Hard
Things
Most things I worry about never happen anyway.
Tom Petty
Worry
About
Never
Most
Happen
Anyway
Things
TV does not care about you or what happens to you. It's downright bad for your health now, and that's not a far-out concept. I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.
Tom Petty
Health
News
You
Mental Health
Care
Think
TV
Bad
TV News
Physical
About
Mental
Physical Health
Concept
Does
Happens
Your
Downright
Now
Watching
What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back; you have to be a kind of team going through life.
Tom Petty
Life
You
Marriage
Other
Back
Kind
About
Through
Learned
Going
Team
Each
Need
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
Work
Music
Money
Giving
Giving Up
Profit
Reckoned
Way
Musician
Out
Would
Taco
Had
Idea
Sort
Making
Still
Been
Lot
Up
Trying
Done
Going
Loved
Decided
Anyway
Less
Less Money
Play
Bell
Play Music
Night
A good song should give you a lot of images; you should be able to make your own little movie in your head to a good song.
Tom Petty
Good
You
Song
Own
Able
Give
Good Song
Head
Make
Lot
Movie
Little
Should
Your
Images
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
Work
Love
You
Happy
Way
Find
Make
Go
Person
After
Then
Happy Person
Really
I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.
Tom Petty
Life
Attitude
Good
You
Rich
Think
Feel
Self-Esteem
Good Attitude
Your
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
You
Money
Dangerous
Become
Think
Dangerous Thing
Television
Moral
About
Something
Talk
Whatsoever
Just
Want
Barometer
Downright
Thing
Watch
It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music.
Tom Petty
Funny
Music
You
People
Internet
Enraged
Music Industry
Way
About
Steal
Know
Industry
Because
Without
How
Afford
Being
Paid
Why
Things
Copied
I would never put my songs in a commercial.
Tom Petty
Would
Never
Songs
Put
Commercial
'Southern Accents,' I think that's one of my best, really. That would have been 1984, and I wrote that on the piano in the studio at home. I had a studio, and I just happened to be down there in the middle of the night. It was quite late, probably early morning, and I just started to play, and a song just started to appear.
Tom Petty
Best
Home
Morning
Song
Down
Think
Late
Would
Piano
Had
Studio
Wrote
Accents
Been
Southern
Quite
Just
Middle
Happened
Really
Appear
Play
Early
Started
Night
Early Morning
I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular moment in time.
Tom Petty
Music
Time
Me
Wind
Particular
Come
Like
Know
Blew
Always
Just
Where
Moment
I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down and play this and get the song over, I don't take it to the band, because most any good song, you can sit down and deliver it with a piano or a guitar.
Tom Petty
Good
You
Song
Guitar
Band
Sit
Down
Rule
Kind
Good Song
Tend
Write
Piano
Take
Deliver
Over
Most
Because
Get
Any
Acoustic
Acoustic Guitar
Play
Rock n' roll was one thing, and then they chopped off the 'roll' and called it 'rock,' which became a sort of umbrella term for anything with a guitar in it. Like hair bands. How could we possibly believe that? It's just gotten downright silly, to the point where now it's sort of become like professional wrestling.
Tom Petty
Guitar
Hair
Become
Believe
Possibly
One Thing
Silly
Wrestling
Point
Could
Term
Like
Sort
Became
Rock
How
Gotten
Rock-N-Roll
Off
Umbrella
Bands
Roll
Just
Where
Anything
Which
Then
Chopped
Professional
Downright
Now
Thing
It's kind of a lonely work, because you just have to keep your pole in the water. I always had a little routine of going into whatever room I was using at the time to write in and just staying in there till I felt like I got a bite.
Tom Petty
Work
Time
You
Water
Lonely
Whatever
Bite
Kind
Staying
Write
Had
Pole
Like
Because
Felt
Always
Got
Till
Going
Just
Little
Room
Your
Using
Keep
Routine
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
Time
Me
Together
Natural
Song
Writing
Guitar
First
Bad
Tried
Write
Put
First Time
Got
Came
After
Electric
Electric Guitar
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
Myself
People
Wolf
Waters
Took
Kid
Those
Stations
Out
Find
Never
Had
Along
Come
Until
Were
Covering
Heard
Stones
Any
Blues
Muddy
Muddy Waters
Who
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
Work
Music
You
People
Song
Strong
Young
Live
Think
Tell
Record
About
Songs
Performance
Always
Got
Making
Material
Same
Young People
Then
Create
Live Performance
I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does.
Tom Petty
Resonate
Pleasantly
Would
Never
Had
Idea
Like
Audience
Does
Surprised
Any
Sometimes, giving up your privacy is a little like going to the dentist and we have let him have access that no one's ever had.
Tom Petty
Privacy
Sometimes
Giving
Giving Up
Had
Like
Him
Access
Up
Dentist
Going
Little
Your
Ever
When I met Elvis, we didn't really have a conversation. I was introduced by my uncle, and he sort of grunted my way. What stays with me is the whole scene. I had never seen a real mob scene before. I was really young and impressionable. Elvis really did look - he looked sort of not real, as if he were glowing.
Tom Petty
Me
Conversation
Seen
Uncle
Met
Before
Young
Elvis
Way
Introduced
Stays
Scene
Never
Had
He
Look
Looked
Sort
Glowing
Real
Were
Mob
Did
Really
Whole
I love doing my 'Buried Treasure' show.
Tom Petty
Love
Doing
Buried
Show
Treasure
I've been more and more into production lately, and I really, really love that. I love recording.
Tom Petty
Love
Recording
Lately
More
More And More
Been
Really
Production
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