Tom Petty Quotes

I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.

I was feeling really restless in my hard-rock band. I wanted to learn more about storytelling in music, and that's what country music is.

I used to help Viv with the chords and melodies sometimes.

Unlike motor sport, I didn't get into music for the live performances. I like writing and studio work and seeing how a song can come to life.

I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.

Working on music is the funnest thing for me, and I love it, and I could do it all day, all night.

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

I spend a lot of time on my music.

Oh yeah, we all write. That's what's great about when you have basics in piano.

I like pop music. Earnestly. Most of the greatest technicians, mix engineers, and players are working in pop music.

I'm very lucky to work in so many different arenas of the entertainment industry and I do enjoy them all, but making music - original music - in the studio or live onstage is definitely my favorite thing to do.

I've always been a fan of just writing songs and making music.

I think it's a bit of a myth that if you can read music you can write music. It doesn't work like that.

Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.

I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.

I started out with piano when I was little. That, for songwriting, is my favorite instrument.

I just think you have got to bring out good music.

Just make good music.

What I love more than anything in the entire world is making music. It's what I studied in school.

No matter what, I'm always interested in making music.

I've been writing music since I was a teenager. I play keyboards. I'm not much of a player, but I can write. That will come along. I'd like to do a musical.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

I respect artists so much, and I absolutely love music as the ultimate art.

I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal ability necessarily.

As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.