​I\’m always curious about where great songwriters get their inspiration for songs that end up being classics. Well one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Tom Petty, said that a quote by rocker Janis Joplin helped inspire one of his most enduring songs, his 1981 masterpiece \”The Waiting\”.

​\”I love being onstage\” Joplin once said \”and everything else is just waiting\” and boom a brilliant hook was born!

A revealing past interview with the music giant is from Paul Zollo\’s \”Conversations with Tom Petty\”.  Find out why it took Petty so long to write the classic hit and why he fell in love with those words here:  https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tom-petty-waiting-janis-joplin/