Tom Petty

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1950 age 0

   Born

2. 1997 age 47

   CreditThe Postman

3. 2017 age 66

   Died

• EREric Roth1 title
• STSteve Tisch1 title
• GRGiovanni Ribisi1 title
• JHJames Newton Howard1 title
• DBDaniel von Bargen1 title
• GWGeorge Wyner1 title
• RHRyan Hurst1 title
• EGEllen Geer1 title
• JRJames Russo1 title
• RLRex Linn1 title

• Young people are very cynical now, you know? Very cynical! They've been taught cynicism, they've been — they've been bred cynicism. So, I think it's important to give them hope and realism in the same package, you know? You can be realistic but there should be — there should be hope in it. Because hope's what we're about. If we don't have hope then we don't go on.

  Tom Petty, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I think for it to be unhip to be idealistic is weird, you know? I mean, even all the best rebels to me had some sense of hope in them.

  Tom Petty, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I don't understand the ones that have no sense of hope and invest in hate. That's not gonna work out, you know? It's a waste of your time!

  Tom Petty, CC BY-SA 4.0

• You don't hear any more of, 'Hey, we did something creative and we turned a profit, how about that?' Everywhere we look, we want to make the most money possible. This is a dangerous, corrupt notion. That's where you see the advent of programming on the radio, and radio research, all these silly things. That has made pop music what it is today. Everything — morals, truth — is all going out the window in favor of profit.

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• I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem. You know, I saw a billboard in New York I wish I had photographed. It was for the TNN network. It said three words against a patriotic background of red, white and blue — BIGGER, YOUNGER, RICHER. Now, I find that fascinating: 'Bigger, younger, richer.' This whole idea of being wealthy has gone too far. I never ride in a limousine, you know. I feel gross if I get in a limousine. One good thing about the sixties was it sort of was the opposite back then. You looked silly trying to appear rich.

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• It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music. I'm not condoning downloading music for free. I don't think that's really fair, but I understand it. If you brought CD prices back down to $8.98, you would solve a lot of the industry's problems.

  Tom Petty, CC BY-SA 4.0