Tom Petty Quotes

You and I will meet again, When we're least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won't say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again.

So I started out for God knows where. I guess I'll know when I get there.

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

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.

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.

I love the music. I'm never, ever tired of playing it.

Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?

I'm not interested in the TV much. I quit watching the news a couple years ago and my outlook on life has gotten a whole lot better.

I don't understand the ones that have no sense of hope and invest in hate. That's not gonna work out, you know? It's a waste of your time!

Let's get to the point Let's roll another joint

I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.

Yeah and it's over before you know it It all goes by so fast Yeah the bad nights take forever And the good nights don't ever seem to last

I started playing the bass because nobody else would play the bass, and then I got bumped up into singing because no one else really wanted to sing. So I learned how to sing and I wrote the songs, so I tended to get the most attention.

Redemption comes to those who wait, forgiveness is the key.

My sister got lucky, married a yuppie, and took him for all he was worth. Now she's a swinger dating a singer, I can't decide which is worse.

If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.

Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person.

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

I'm certainly not a Robin Hood, I'm not that way. I don't want to come through, burn everybody for $200 a ticket and then they can't afford to come see me again. Plus, I just don't think it's right. I don't think we need that much money. I just do what seems like the logical thing to do.

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.

When I met Elvis, we didn't really have a conversation. I was introduced by my uncle, and he sort of grunted my way. What stays with me is the whole scene. I had never seen a real mob scene before. I was really young and impressionable. Elvis really did look - he looked sort of not real, as if he were glowing.

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

I think it's important to always offer something new.

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.

Some grow young, some grow cold...

But not me, baby, I've got you to save me.

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.

I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.

We don't really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we've been taken for granted.

I got my own way of praying.

You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won't back down.

Gypsies at home watching Jerry Falwell on TV, might mean something to you, it ain't nothing to me.

If 20,000 people start to sing, you tend to go along with it.

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

Running down a dream... working on a mystery... going wherever it leads.

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 things.

My mama was a rocker way back in fifty-three, buys them old records that they sell on TV.

You belong among the wildflowers You belong in a boat out at sea You belong with your love on your arm You belong somewhere you feel free

Well, I started out down a dirty road Started out all alone And the sun went down as I crossed the hill And the town lit up, the world got still I'm learning to fly but I ain't got wings Coming down is the hardest thing Well, the good ol' days may not return And the rocks might melt and the sea may burn I'm learning to fly but I ain't got wings Coming down is the hardest thing Well, some say life will beat you down Break your heart, steal your crown So I've started out for God knows where I guess I'll know when I get there I'm learning to fly around the clouds But what goes up must come down

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

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.

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 have done it anyway. If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music.

There's a freeway running through the yard.

I never could have dreamed that her heart was so wicked, but I keep coming back because it's so hard to kick it.

I think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck.

I've always had a great love for the blues.

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.