I have never been comfortable being the front man.
TOM PETTYI always tell my kids, “Find something that you love and within that you’ll find some job that you can do and you’ll always be happy. You’ll go to a job that you want to go to.”
More Tom Petty Quotes
-
-
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 -
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 -
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 -
God, it’s so painful when something that’s so close is still so far out of reach.
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 -
You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don’t have to live like a refugee.
TOM PETTY -
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.
TOM PETTY -
I got my own way of praying.
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 -
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.
TOM PETTY -
I think it’s important to always offer something new.
TOM PETTY -
You belong somewhere you feel free.
TOM PETTY -
Running down a dream… working on a mystery… going wherever it leads.
TOM PETTY -
Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.
TOM PETTY -
I’m actually better on the guitar than when I started, I think, because I’ve had so much time with it and I still practice and I love to do it and I love to sing.
TOM PETTY