I think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck.
TOM PETTYI wouldn’t want to get stuck being an oldie-goldie group, but I don’t mind. I think all the trouble you go through these days to go to one of these concerts, I think I owe them a bit of what they came to hear.
More Tom Petty Quotes
-
-
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.
TOM PETTY -
I’m not any happier anywhere than when I’m in the studio. I’m over the moon about it. It keeps me young, it keeps me feeling like I have some purpose.
TOM PETTY -
I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.
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 -
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 -
The waiting is the hardest part.
TOM PETTY -
Good loving is hard to find, you got lucky babe, when I found you.
TOM PETTY -
The poison came in liquid, she was naked all the time.
TOM PETTY -
Running down a dream… working on a mystery… going wherever it leads.
TOM PETTY -
Redemption comes to those who wait, forgiveness is the key.
TOM PETTY -
I like making money like anybody else, and I’m paid well, but I think there is a point at which you can out-price your audience or your base.
TOM PETTY -
That’s stupid. You couldn’t pay me to go. I’m not oversimplifying it. That’s what’s going on. I don’t think it would be any fun without the drugs. It’s a drug party.
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 -
A rebel without a clue.
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 -
Honey, don’t walk out, I’m too drunk to follow.
TOM PETTY -
I would never put my songs in a commercial.
TOM PETTY -
She’s a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
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 -
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 -
You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don’t have to live like a refugee.
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