Tom Petty Quotes

I'm old enough to have lived in a country where, if you were willing to work hard, you could have a fairly nice life. You could support your family, and even get a shot at owning your own home. But yo...

I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated.

I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.

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...

You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here.

Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.

TV does not care about you or what happens to you. It's downright bad for your health now, and that's not a far-out concept. I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical he...

I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.

The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.

I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down and play this and get the song over, I don't take it to the band, because most any good song, you can sit...

I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.

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.

Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick involved with it. It's pure and it's real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible...

What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back you have to be a kind of team going through life.

When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain.

Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time.

When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would h...

When I go to see people, I always kind of hope they are going to play some kind of songs I know. So you've got to know your audience. It's kind of something that is a blessing and a curse in a way. Yo...

The energy of the crowd is insane. Twenty thousand people. It's the biggest jolt of adrenaline. It's very hard to explain. You know the old story about the woman lifting the car off her kid? It's in t...

I don't treat the band like I'm above them or that they're a hired hand for me. We've never worked that way. So I'm a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.