“I had always thought guitars were cool because of
cowboys. Cowboys played guitars. And Elvis [Presley] played guitar, so I just
thought, ‘Hell, I'm gonna need one of those.’ It wouldn't be until a few years
later, I guess with the Beatles coming, [that] I really got serious about
learning.”—American rock ‘n’ roll singer-songwriter Tom Petty (1950-2017), on
what he thought when his parents got him his first guitar, quoted in Melinda
Newman, “
Tom Petty: A Portrait Of the Artist,” Billboard, December
3, 2005
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