Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Quotes
-
I've learned one thing, and that's to quit worrying about stupid things. You have four years to be irresponsible here, relax. Work is for people with jobs. You'll never remember class time, but you'll remember the time you wasted hanging out with your friends. So stay out late. Go out with your friends on a Tuesday when you have a paper due on Wednesday. Spend money you don't have. Drink 'til sunrise. The work never ends, but college does.
-
In a world that keeps on pushing me around, I'm gonna stand my ground, and I won't back down.
-
You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won't back down.
-
He don't wanna change, what don't need to change.
-
I'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.
-
I think sometimes maybe you're going to connect with the audience more than others, but the journey is about getting all there is to get out of this group of people.
-
You're dealing in magic-it's this intangible thing that has to happen. And to seek it out too much might not be a good idea. Because, you know, it's very shy, too. But once you've got the essence of them, you can work songs and improve them. You see if there's a better word, or a better change.
-
You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world.
-
Let's get to the point Let's roll another joint...
-
I'm always having fun. Playing is fun. Music is fun.
-
I would never put my songs in a commercial.
-
If you're not getting older, you're dead.
-
Yeah, the world would swing if I were king. Can I help it if I still dream time to time?
-
If 20,000 people start to sing, you tend to go along with it.
-
You belong somewhere you feel free.
-
I always tell my kids, "Find something that you love and within that you'll find some job that you can do and you'll always be happy. You'll go to a job that you want to go to."
-
Songwriting ability is a gift. After a while, you come to realize, "I've really been blessed. I can write these things and it makes me happy, and it makes millions of people happy." It's an obligation, it's bigger than you. It's the only true magic I know. It's not pulling a rabbit out of a hat; it's real. It's your soul floating out to theirs.
-
No matter how long you play the guitar, there's always something else to learn.
-
We could move catalog, if he'd only die quicker.
-
I wouldn't want to get stuck being an oldie-goldie group, but I don't mind. I think all the trouble you go through these days to go to one of these concerts, I think I owe them a bit of what they came to hear.
-
You believe what you want to believe...
-
I've always had a great love for the blues.
-
Some grow young, some grow cold...
-
I've got a room at the top of the world tonight. I can see everything tonight.