Quote

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.

Tom Petty

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Tom Petty
Age: 66 †
Born: 1950
Born: October 20
Died: 2017
Died: October 2
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Gainesville
Florida
Thomas Earl Petty
Charlie T. Wilbury
Jr.
Guy
Hugged
Five
Harrison
Going
George
Much
Minutes
Kind
Leave
Told
Loved
Wasn

More quotes by Tom Petty

Image
She grew up hard and she grew up fast, in the age of television.
Tom Petty
Image
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.
Tom Petty
Image
There was rock and roll across the dial, when I think of her it makes me smile.
Tom Petty
Image
There was no use pretending, no magic left to hear, all the music gave me was a craving for lite beer.
Tom Petty
Image
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.
Tom Petty
Image
You believe what you want to believe
Tom Petty
Image
Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.
Tom Petty
Image
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
Image
Take back your insurance, baby, nothing is guaranteed. Take back your acid rain, let your TV bleed.
Tom Petty
Image
I'm so tired of being tired. Sure as night will follow day most things I worry about will never happen anyway.
Tom Petty
Image
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
Image
Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.
Tom Petty
Image
You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don't have to live like a refugee.
Tom Petty
Image
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
Image
If you don't run, you rust.
Tom Petty
Image
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
Image
'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
Image
If you look around at America, that's one of its biggest problems is you have corporations that can never be pleased at a profit.
Tom Petty
Image
I have never been comfortable being the front man.
Tom Petty
Image
Way up in the nosebleeds we watched him on the screen, they'd hung between the billboards so cheaper seats could see.
Tom Petty