Tom Petty Quotes
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Well I won't back down
No I won't back down
You can stand me up at the gates of hell
But I won't back down — Tom Petty
No I won't back down
You can stand me up at the gates of hell
But I won't back down — Tom Petty
It's always been great to be onstage. It's really effortless up there. It's not a lot of work.
— Tom Petty
George Harrison was the kind of guy who wasn't going to leave until he hugged you for five minutes and told you how much he loved you.
— Tom Petty
On the music side, I'm a cross between maybe that Texas songwriter and that Tom Petty feel.
— Bryan Hayes
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.
— Tom Petty
Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.
— Tom Petty
I think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck.
— Tom Petty
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.
— Tom Petty
I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does.
— Tom Petty
It just seems to useless to have to work so hard, and nothing ever really seem to come from it.
— Tom Petty
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.
— Tom Petty
It's like Tom Waits said," Petty remarks. "'I'm an artist, but I'm still in show business.
— Warren Zanes
The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.
— Tom Petty
In a world that keeps on pushing me around, I'm gonna stand my ground, and I won't back down ...
— Tom Petty
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.
— Tom Petty
I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
— Tom Petty
Some grow young, some grow cold ...
— Tom Petty
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.
— Tom Petty
Most things I worry about never happen anyway.
— Tom Petty
There used to be this real sense of community integrity in rock. It has really eroded. Everyone seems to be on their own now.
— Tom Petty
You believe what you want to believe
— Tom Petty
And the days went by like paper in the wind. Everything changed, then changed again. It's hard to find a friend. It's hard to find a friend.
— Tom Petty
I'm so tired of being tired. Sure as night will follow day most things I worry about will never happen anyway.
— Tom Petty
I'm tired of screwing up. I'm tired of being down. I'm tired of myself. I'm tired of bein' down.
— Tom Petty
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
— Tom Petty
If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.
— Tom Petty
Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person.
— Tom Petty
I never could have dreamed that her heart was so wicked, but I keep coming back because it's so hard to kick it.
— Tom Petty
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.
— Tom Petty
At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
— Tom Petty
Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
— Tom Petty
If you're not getting older, you're dead.
— Tom Petty
I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.
— Tom Petty
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 — Tom Petty
One more time to kill the pain
I feel summer creepin' in and I'm
Tired of this town again — Tom Petty
Gypsies at home watching Jerry Falwell on TV, might mean something to you, it ain't nothing to me.
— Tom Petty
I would never put my songs in a commercial.
— Tom Petty
I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.
— Tom Petty
Take back your insurance, baby, nothing is guaranteed. Take back your acid rain, let your TV bleed.
— Tom Petty
If you stretch your imagination, I'll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn't up for sale.
— Tom Petty
I'll stand my ground and I won't back down...
— Tom Petty
The waiting is the hardest part.
— Tom Petty
My mama was a rocker way back in fifty-three, buys them old records that they sell on TV.
— Tom Petty
You belong somewhere you feel free.
— Tom Petty
I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there.
— Tom Petty
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.
— Tom Petty
The waiting is the hardest part, every day you get one more yard. You take it on faith, you take it to the heart, the waiting is hardest part.
— Tom Petty
As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you'll pay for what you used to get for free.
— Tom Petty
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.
— Tom Petty
most things I worry 'bout never happen anyway
— Tom Petty
Honey, don't walk out, I'm too drunk to follow.
— Tom Petty
Sometimes, giving up your privacy is a little like going to the dentist and we have let him have access that no one's ever had.
— Tom Petty
'Free Fallin' is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn't become this huge anthem. But I'm grateful that people like it.
— Tom Petty
So I turned on the radio and of course it was a Tom Petty song - is there ever a time you turn on the radio and don't hear a Tom Petty song? - so
— Gillian Flynn
There was no use pretending, no magic left to hear, all the music gave me was a craving for lite beer.
— Tom Petty
Just wonderin', waitin', worryin' about some silly little things, that just don't add up to nothin'.
— Tom Petty
If you don't run, you rust.
— Tom Petty
I'd always been a fan growing up, and in high school, I was really into Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen.
— Bryan Hayes
We could move catalog, if he'd only die quicker.
— Tom Petty
He [George Harrison] told me he really, really admired John [Lennon]. He probably wanted John's acceptance pretty bad, you know?
— Tom Petty
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 — Tom Petty
It all goes by so fast
Yeah the bad nights take forever
And the good nights don't ever seem to last — Tom Petty
When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain.
— Tom Petty
Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?
— Tom Petty
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.
— Tom Petty