Quotes With The Most

|| Tom Petty ||

A/N: I know it's been ages and for that I apologize. The book isn't quite over, I don't even know when that will be as I'm doing this on a whim - but it has been fun to try something new. I actually had this ready before the news of his passing, but it slipped my mind so why not publish it now. Thank you all so much for the 800+ reads, and the votes! Awesome! :D

"Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person."

🎩

"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."

🎩

"I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem."

🎩

"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."

🎩

"I'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily."

(Relatable.)

🎩

"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."

🎩

"Most things I worry about never happen anyway."

🎩

"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."

🎩

"I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy."

🎩

"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."

🎩

"I don't treat the band like I'm above them or that they're a hired hand for me. We've never worked that way. So I'm a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone."

🎩

"The energy of the crowd is insane. Twenty thousand people. It's the biggest jolt of adrenaline. It's very hard to explain. You know the old story about the woman lifting the car off her kid? It's in that realm. You can actually hurt yourself and not know it."

🎩

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

🎩

"I think that if people realize that with an mp3, you're only getting five percent of the sound that's there. But when you hear the entire thing... I think it would save the music business. It's such a drastic change."

🎩

"I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does."

(His words are honest, imo, and I suppose a lot of people can resonate with that! :))

🎩

"You and I will meet again, When we're least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won't say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again."

⚓