Tom Petty Quotes

I'm an okay drummer, I'm an okay bass player, I'm an okay keyboardist, and I'm a quite good guitar player.

I can play the guitar and the keys and the drums. I'm not brilliant at any of them. I can sing too. Some of my friends are proper musicians but I'm a song-writer. I write songs.

If I could play an instrument, it would probably be a cello or an electric guitar.

I tried to find a way out in many ways, but it all caught up with me. Once I realised I could sing and write songs, it was just so much easier to do than anything else!

I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I've been doing it for a long time.

I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.

Being a singer is a way for me to get to a platform to do more.

I sing, but I don't think of myself as a singer.

I'm a pretty good drummer. I'm pretty good at guitar, bass and piano. I can play accordion; I'm not virtuoso. I've played cello before. My sister played it, and I know how to play it, but I'm not the best. Violin is kind of the same thing.

I've been singing and playing the guitar ever since I can remember.

At 13, I loved how so many of my peers sang and played acoustic guitar, so I started recording videos with covers of famous songs and posting them online.

I really loved being able to perform my songs and sing them myself.

I don't play guitar. I sing. I'm the lead singer, of Cousin Billy. I also play harmonica, after a fashion.

I'm just a man, not a hero. just a boy, who wants to sing this song.

No, I don't, like, play an instrument or anything.I'm just...well, you saw me at the beginning there. I was the guy that fell down and died.

I had more of a vocal range. If you wanted to play a keyboard song, like "Love Walks In," I can do it.

I like sitting in the dark and watching people far more talented than I'll ever be sing my songs and say my words. It's thrilling.

I wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks.

Music is the first thing I ever cared greatly about. I've been singing and writing songs since I was six or seven.

I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.

I wrote my first song when I was seven and that was kind of country. Now I'm just like 'No! Why did I play country?'

I envy drummers. It must be the ultimate to sing and play drums at the same time. Phil Collins, no wonder he's so f... happy.

I want to make great songs.

When I started out playing guitar and singing, I was about twelve, going on thirteen. The role models for me back then were the folk singers. They all had these high, really nice voices and ranges, like Judy Collins and Joan Baez, and then later, of course, Joni Mitchell and Linda Ronstadt. I decided early on that I was going to learn how to write songs really, really well, because I didn't want to have to compete as a singer. I didn't feel that it was my strong point.

It's really very easy for me to be in The Cardinals, because I bring my voice, my guitar, and my songs to them, and then we all play around to find out what works.