Tom Petty Quotes

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

The great thing about the Wilburys was that none of us had to take the heat by ourselves. I was just...

I've learned one thing, and that's to quit worrying about stupid things. You have four years to be i...

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

I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust...

When I go to see people, I always kind of hope they are going to play some kind of songs I know. So ...

You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life fo...

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

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 old enough to have lived in a country where, if you were willing to work hard, you could have a ...

Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick involved...

The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care ...

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

I think that if people realize that with an mp3, you're only getting five percent of the sound that'...

Making a record? You've got to have the song, then you create a record. I think it's the same with a...

I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a ...

When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less mo...

I think television's become a downright dangerous thing. It has no moral barometer whatsoever. If yo...

It's very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it's really a beautiful ...

I don't treat the band like I'm above them or that they're a hired hand for me. We've never worked t...

'Free Fallin' is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn't become this hu...

When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always ...

I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down and p...

Well I won't back downNo I won't back downYou can stand me up at the gates of hellBut I won't back d...

TV does not care about you or what happens to you. It's downright bad for your health now, and that'...

It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied withou...

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

The energy of the crowd is insane. Twenty thousand people. It's the biggest jolt of adrenaline. It's...

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

The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song toge...