Tom Petty Quotes

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 always had a great love for the blues.

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

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 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.

Honey, don’t walk out, I’m too drunk to follow.

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

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

I’m so tired of being tired. Sure as night will follow day most things I worry about will 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.