Best quotes by Tom Petty on Time

Checkout quotes by Tom Petty on Time

• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ As time goes by, you seem to weed out the things that were making your life hard.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ The great thing about the Wilburys was that none of us had to take the heat by ourselves. I was just a member of the band. Nobody felt like he was above anybody else. We had such a good time.

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• ‟ I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.

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• ‟ My hours get kinda backwards. Most of the time, we're basing out of one town, flying out, doing the show, then flying back. And it's a pace that no one would believe, really. Unless you've done it, you really can't understand what it is. And if you're not really experienced and know how to do it, you will fall.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ I don't eat fish and chicken and all that. But I will have some eggs. So I'm not technically a vegan. But I eat pretty sensibly, and before a tour, I will usually work out a lot. I'll get a trainer, or I have a guy I've known a long time.

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• ‟ An average show is two hours. And that's usually right up to the curfew or the union triple time. I always feel like I could have played a little longer or something, but it's hard for me to pay attention to anything for longer than that.

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• ‟ I think, in America, for a long time you had groups that wanted to be stars more than they wanted to make music.

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