Best 133 quotes of Tom Petty on MyQuotes

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.

I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.

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.

I'm not any happier anywhere than when I'm in the studio. I'm over the moon about it. It keeps me young, it keeps me feeling like I have some purpose.

I'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.

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'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'm tired of screwing up. I'm tired of being down. I'm tired of myself. I'm tired of bein' down.

In a world that keeps on pushing me around, I'm gonna stand my ground, and I won't back down.

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 remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.

I should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it's such a drag when you're livin' in the past

I think for it to be hip to be idealistic is weird, you know? I mean, even all the best rebels to me, had some sense of hope in them.

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

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.

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

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

It just seems to useless to have to work so hard, and nothing ever really seem to come from 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.

It's very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it's really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music.

I've got a room at the top of the world tonight. I can see everything tonight.

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.

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.

Just wonderin', waitin', worryin' about some silly little things, that just don't add up to nothin'.

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

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

Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.

Most magic is a trick, an illusion. But [when The Beatles played the Ed Sullivan Show], this was real. Man oh man, was it real.

Most things I worry about never happen anyway.

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.

Music really isn’t supposed to be perfect.  It’s all about people relating to each other and doing something that’s really from the soul.  It must come from the soul.

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

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.

No matter how long you play the guitar, there's always something else to learn.

Oh yeah, alright, take it easy baby, make it last all night. She was an American Girl.

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

She grew up hard and she grew up fast, in the age of television.

She's a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.

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

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.

Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.

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

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.

Take back your insurance, baby, nothing is guaranteed. Take back your acid rain, let your TV bleed.

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

The poison came in liquid, she was naked all the time.

There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.

There's a freeway running through the yard.

There used to be this real sense of community integrity in rock. It has really eroded. Everyone seems to be on their own now.

There was no use pretending, no magic left to hear, all the music gave me was a craving for lite beer.