Tom Petty
Tom Petty
Thomas Earl "Tom" Pettyis an American musician, singer, songwriter, multi instrumentalist and record producer. He is best known as the lead singer of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, but is also known as a member and co-founder of the late 1980s supergroup the Traveling Wilburys, and his early band Mudcrutch...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth20 October 1950
CityGainesville, FL
CountryUnited States of America
Way up in the nosebleeds we watched him on the screen, they'd hung between the billboards so cheaper seats could see.
A rebel without a clue.
Bring me a girl, they're always the best. You put 'em on stage, and you have 'em undress.
She grew up hard and she grew up fast, in the age of television.
We could move catalog, if he'd only die quicker.
Artists aren't necessarily business people. And they aren't necessarily aware of all the things that go on in their names. Some just want to make some music, but there is a lot of greed among artists as well. Whether or not we know it, we are all to blame. I think it's time - starting with the artist - to try to be a little more responsible and aware of what goes on in our name.
As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you'll pay for what you used to get for free.
I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there.
We were pretty efficient in the first half. Our passing was pretty good against their zone.
We enjoy playing with each other, which I think is a pretty important part of this. If we didn't, we'd have given it up a long time ago. The idea when we started was to take five people and keep 'em together no matter what and see what we could get out of it, and we've pretty much stuck to that plan.
It didn't affect his ability for a long time. Heroin can be like that with musicians; I think that's why you see so many musicians drift that way, because you can remain musical for a long time. But I think, without exception, they all hit the wall eventually and the creativity goes.
We've given him access we've never given anybody.
like a deer in the headlights, frozen in real time and I'm losing my mind, it's time to move on
We said 'You're going to have to quit this. It's gonna get you. You just don't win with heroin. You die or you go to jail. There's no middle ground. There's no other options,'