Tom Petty Quotes
- All Quotes
-
I didn't worry about my career ending, but there were days where I felt pretty beat up by it all and just pretty tired, because they didn't make it easy for me. And coming right off the last lawsuit, it was the last thing I wanted to get involved in. When it was over, we didn't really celebrate, we were just exhausted. I lost all interest in the record business and never wanted to do anything except hand in a record again.
-
Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
-
Last dance with Mary Jane One more time to kill the pain I feel summer creepin' in and I'm Tired of this town again...
-
If you look around at America, that's one of its biggest problems is you have corporations that can never be pleased at a profit.
-
Take back your insurance, baby, nothing is guaranteed. Take back your acid rain, let your TV bleed.
-
I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.
-
You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.
-
We haven't always been boy scouts, but we never lost sight of the music, Let me remind you that this ain't the end.
-
A rebel without a clue.
-
I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated.
-
But not me, baby, I've got you to save me.
-
I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular moment in time.
-
I think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck.
-
Oh yeah, alright, take it easy baby, make it last all night. She was an American Girl.
-
You were the one who made things different, you were the one who took me in. You were the one thing I could count on, above all, you were my friend.
-
I got my own way of praying.
-
There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.
-
At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
-
When you kill somebody's little sister with a missile, he's going to hate you forever. And the next generation will hate you even more.
-
I'm more interested in what I'm going to leave behind me than in making a big hit record. I've refined what I do for a long time. If getting better at it means it goes over the heads of those who only wanted to party, then so be it.
-
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 trying to be cool. I have a problem with lights. I have one eye that's become super-sensitive to lighting, so I do wear sunglasses quite a bit.
-
I want to be successful. Not just money. Just making a successful record and a successful show... I could feel successful without selling a million records.
-
Some days are diamonds, some days are rocks. Some doors are opened, some roads are blocked. Sundowns are golden, then fade away. And if I never do nothing, I'll get you back someday.