Quotes by : Tom Petty

Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick involved....

You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for....

It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without....

'Free Fallin' is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn't become this huge....

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....

I think television's become a downright dangerous thing. It has no moral barometer whatsoever. If you....

I think that if people realize that with an mp3, you're only getting five percent of the sound that's....

The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song together,....

I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular....

Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.....