Tom Petty Quotes

• I think television’s become a downright dangerous thing. It has no moral barometer whatsoever. If you want to talk about something that is all about money, just watch the television.

  Tom Petty

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Television

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Music, Stealing

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

  Tom Petty

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Feel

• I’m barely prolific and incredibly lazy.

  Tom Petty

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Lazy

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Like, Record

• 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.

  Tom Petty

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Music, Like

• 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

  Topics in Attitude, Life

  Tags in Feel

• TV does not care about you or what happens to you. It’s downright bad for your health now, and that’s not a far-out concept. I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.

  Tom Petty

  Topics in Health

  Tags in Think, Tv

• The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.

  Tom Petty

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Profit

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Meet, Again

• Most things I worry about never happen anyway.

  Tom Petty

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Worry

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Finding

• There used to be this real sense of community integrity in rock. It has really eroded. Everyone seems to be on their own now.

  Tom Petty

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Integrity, Community

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Team

• When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I’d had to work at Taco Bell I’d have still been out at night trying to play music.

  Tom Petty

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Decided, Bell

• When I was a kid, we didn’t have any blues stations. I never heard Howlin’ Wolf or Muddy Waters or any of those people until the Stones had come along, and I took it upon myself to find out who these people were that they were covering.

  Tom Petty

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Until, Wolf

• When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you’ve always got a different ache or pain.

  Tom Petty

  Topics in Health

  Tags in Breaking, Pain

• The energy of the crowd is insane. Twenty thousand people. It’s the biggest jolt of adrenaline. It’s very hard to explain. You know the old story about the woman lifting the car off her kid? It’s in that realm. You can actually hurt yourself and not know it.

  Tom Petty

  Topics in Uncategorized

• 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.

  Tom Petty

  Topics in Uncategorized

• I’ve never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I’m pleasantly surprised when it does.

  Tom Petty

  Topics in Uncategorized

Tom Petty (26)

Birth:	20th October, 1950
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Musician, Lyricist, Singer

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