I have never been comfortable being the front man.
TOM PETTYI don’t think it’s a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.
More Tom Petty Quotes
-
-
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 -
The poison came in liquid, she was naked all the time.
TOM PETTY -
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.
TOM PETTY -
If I’d had to work at Taco Bell I’d have still been out at night trying to play music.
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 -
Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?
TOM PETTY -
I always liked the idea of the guitar – because cowboys played the guitar.
TOM PETTY -
I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.
TOM PETTY -
I ain’t really sure, but it seems I remember the good times.
TOM PETTY -
You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won’t back down.
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 -
There’s a freeway running through the yard.
TOM PETTY -
I would never put my songs in a commercial.
TOM PETTY -
We don’t really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we’ve been taken for granted.
TOM PETTY -
There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.
TOM PETTY