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Petty: The Biography by Warren Zanes
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"Tom Petty," Jim Lenahan insists, "is really good at getting people to quit school and join his band. He got Benmont to do it. He got me to do it. He got Mike to do it. He got a lot of people to quit college so they could be in his band."
― Warren Zanes, Petty: The Biography

"My sons weren't sure what I was getting at. It doesn't matter anyway, because it won't be an option for them. They don't have a Tom Petty. They're borrowing mine."
― Warren Zanes, Petty: The Biography

"It's like Tom Waits said," Petty remarks. "'I'm an artist, but I'm still in show business."
― Warren Zanes, Petty: The Biography

"I probably gave it a shot at school for about a minute. There was a point where I realized—especially in high school—that the men and women teaching me may not be as bright as me, and I couldn't suffer that. I looked at them and thought, 'I'm not really sure you know what you're doing.' I could excel at anything I had an interest in. Even a vague interest. Like in English. I got good marks, because I didn't mind reading something. I liked stories. That hooked me. I could get into how words came together, how sentences were built, stories put together. All of that interested me. It was effortless. I used to get these horrible report cards, but there'd be an A in English. My mother would go, 'Why do you only study for this class?' But the truth was, I wasn't studying for any of the classes … that just happened."
― Warren Zanes, Petty: The Biography

"After Petty's therapist heard the song "Wildflowers," he asked who the singer was addressing. "I told him I wasn't sure," Petty says. "And then he said, 'I know. That song is about you. That's you singing to yourself what you needed to hear.' It kind of knocked me back. But I realized he was right. It was me singing to me."
― Warren Zanes, Petty: The Biography

"But good records seem to get to the people who need them the most. I guess I have to believe that the best marketing tool is still a good song. And that it's probably better that I put my time into writing one of those than learning how to do social media properly." Petty"
― Warren Zanes, Petty: The Biography

"If you're thinking about your career, you probably don't have one."
― Warren Zanes, Petty: The Biography

"The human condition is the same for everyone," says Olivia Harrison. "But once you're isolated, it's even worse. When those big life events happen, you can't see your way out of them. When you're in the world, you have outreach. When you're in a bubble, how do you see outside of that? How do people get in? And then you feel like you really don't want people to see what your troubles are, you're so private at that point. It's really easy to not get help."
― Warren Zanes, Petty: The Biography

"The feeling that universities were supposed to give, that feeling of possibility and promise, these kids got from playing in bands. By"
― Warren Zanes, Petty: The Biography

"They were kids. But the ones who could play would often mix with an older crowd. There was no distinction between varsity and junior varsity—strict divisions that applied elsewhere often didn't in the world of local bands."
― Warren Zanes, Petty: The Biography

"I guess I have to believe that the best marketing tool is still a good song. And that it's probably better that I put my time into writing one of those than learning how to do social media properly."
― Warren Zanes, Petty: The Biography

"No, that's not quite it," says Petty. "My adrenaline would go so high during a show I wouldn't come down for hours. I'm kind of delicate mentally. People would be talking to me backstage, and I couldn't take in much of anything they're saying to me. You start to feel hypocritical. I'd be in such a different place than the folks coming back to see me. But, on another level, imagine if I rolled into some guy's office, sat down next to his desk, and said, 'Let's get drunk! Let's smoke one, whaddya say? I got some people I want you to meet!' Right? When I'm playing a show, I'm at the office."
― Warren Zanes, Petty: The Biography

"Many fathers are gone. Some leave, some are left. Some return, unknown and hungry. Only the dog remembers. —NICK FLYNN, ANOTHER BULLSHIT NIGHT IN SUCK CITY Their"
― Warren Zanes, Petty: The Biography

"Songs were the place he took his loss and turned it into something else. Which may not have been the same as grieving, but it was something."
― Warren Zanes, Petty: The Biography

"I'm a good dog," says Lynch. "Woof, woof! I had fun. I did exactly what you'd expect a young fucking buck to do when he's off the leash. He fucking runs, shits everywhere, and has a ball. You're supposed to go, 'Get 'em, Bosco!' You're not supposed to train him."
― Warren Zanes, Petty: The Biography

"Very early on I realized," Petty says, "that I had to teach myself everything just to exist at the level I wanted to live my life. I felt there was more to be known, more to be understood than I was going to get from the household I was in. I kind of knew that much from very early on. Exactly why, I'm not sure, but I got that maybe what my parents pictured for me wasn't at all what I was going to go with. I knew I didn't want to grow up and be an insurance salesman. That looked really dull to me. And I think it was television that saved my life, that raised and educated me."
― Warren Zanes, Petty: The Biography

"Historian David Halberstam has suggested that there was a perverse effect to shows like Father Knows Best: young people had to watch those perfect families, only to show up at the dining room table and be greeted by lunatics. "Kids growing up in homes filled with anger and tension often felt the failure was theirs," he writes. Of course, what kid had the presence of mind, or the information, to see it for what it was? Who knew that Ozzie Nelson was in truth a workaholic with little off camera time for his children, another absent father among the many? That wasn't how it looked on television."
― Warren Zanes, Petty: The Biography

"Denny Cordell and Leon Russell ran a record company much the way Russell put together Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour, which was basically a hippie commune on wheels. The Mad Dogs and Englishmen experience would stand as a kind of summit of seventies excess, with three drummers and a choir and endless hangers-on. But Russell's and Cordell's careers started well before that. Leon Russell had been a member of the Wrecking Crew, playing on Phil Spector records, Beach Boys and Byrds records, Monkees and Paul Revere and the Raiders records. He'd been a member of the Shindogs, the house band on television's Shindig! He'd had his own hits and seen his songs become hits for other artists, from Gary Lewis and the Playboys to the Carpenters. When George Harrison organized the Bangladesh concert, he called Russell, who helped put the band together. At those shows, Russell stood out like the natural star he was. Denny"
― Warren Zanes, Petty: The Biography

"they all came out of the same quiet that haunted a lot of American homes in the fifties. Rock and roll was the thing God delivered to break up the silence."
― Warren Zanes, Petty: The Biography

"It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggressiveness."
― Warren Zanes, Petty: The Biography

"The Cat in the Hat exposes the in-betweenness of it all, the midcentury breakdown in meaning, out of which Tom Petty's generation emerged, a little starved for something to call their own. It's the rock and roll of children's literature."
― Warren Zanes, Petty: The Biography

"The author Karen Blixen once said, "All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them." But what if a person can't tell a story about his sorrows? What if his story tells him?"
― Warren Zanes, Petty: The Biography

"Tap is a school for syncopation that's also a school of song. "There's a dynamic that's used in tap dancing," explains Steve Ferrone, "that's the same as what you use when you're playing the drums. You build into the chorus. You have the introduction, the verse, all of that. I tap danced to 'Georgia,' slow. And I won a car doing it."
― Warren Zanes, Petty: The Biography

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