Tom Petty

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

#bad #came #electric #electric guitar #first

The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit. ↗

— Tom Petty

#business #care #compared #innocent #know

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

— Tom Petty

#eroded #everyone #integrity #now #own

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

#back #each #going #i #kind

When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain. ↗

— Tom Petty

#becomes #breaking #different #down #get

You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here. ↗

— Tom Petty

#around #falling #fifties #flies #get

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

#barometer #become #dangerous #dangerous thing #downright

I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy. ↗

— Tom Petty

#i #incredibly #lazy #prolific

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

#feel #good #good attitude #i #life