Tom Petty Quotes

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.

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.

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

Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can't stay long.

Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person.

Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.

You belong somewhere you feel free.

Music really isn’t supposed to be perfect. It’s all about people relating to each other and doing something that’s really from the soul. It must come from the soul.

I've learned one thing, and that's to quit worrying about stupid things. You have four years to be irresponsible here, relax. Work is for people with jobs. You'll never remember class time, but you'll remember the time you wasted hanging out with your friends. So stay out late. Go out with your friends on a Tuesday when you have a paper due on Wednesday. Spend money you don't have. Drink 'til sunrise. The work never ends, but college does.

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.

You were the one who made things different, you were the one who took me in. You were the one thing I could count on, above all, you were my friend.

Running down a dream... working on a mystery... going wherever it leads.

Most things I worry about never happen anyway.

Songwriting ability is a gift. After a while, you come to realize, "I've really been blessed. I can write these things and it makes me happy, and it makes millions of people happy." It's an obligation, it's bigger than you. It's the only true magic I know. It's not pulling a rabbit out of a hat; it's real. It's your soul floating out to theirs.

In a world that keeps on pushing me around, I'm gonna stand my ground, and I won't back down.

You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world.

Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.

Yeah and it's over before you know it It all goes by so fast Yeah the bad nights take forever And the good nights don't ever seem to last

Time to move on, time to get going. What lies ahead I have no way of knowing. But under my feet, baby, grass is growing.

I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.

I've got a room at the top of the world tonight. I can see everything tonight.

She's a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.

Any time you're making a living at what you love to do, you're blessed.

I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.

I'm more interested in what I'm going to leave behind me than in making a big hit record. I've refined what I do for a long time. If getting better at it means it goes over the heads of those who only wanted to party, then so be it.

Redemption comes to those who wait, forgiveness is the key.

I don't understand the ones that have no sense of hope and invest in hate. That's not gonna work out, you know? It's a waste of your time!

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

If you're not getting older, you're dead.

Even the losers get lucky sometimes!

George Harrison was the kind of guy who wasn’t going to leave until he hugged you for five minutes and told you how much he loved you.

Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.

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.

I 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."

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.

God, it's so painful when something that's so close is still so far out of reach.

You believe what you want to believe

Some grow young, some grow cold...

I'm so tired of being tired. Sure as night will follow day most things I worry about will never happen anyway.

I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.

At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.

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.

If you don't run, you rust.

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.

'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.

You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won't back down.

Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time.

And the days went by like paper in the wind. Everything changed, then changed again. It's hard to find a friend. It's hard to find a friend.

A rebel without a clue.

I don't treat the band like I'm above them or that they're a hired hand for me. We've never worked that way. So I'm a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.