Quote

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

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.
Petty
Mental
Watching
Physical
News
Health
Think
Thinking

More quotes by 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. And I think a lot of these young kids are going to have to learn the hard way before they realize that you can actually do some damage if you're being careless or frivolous in what you're saying.
Tom Petty
Image
God, it's so painful when something that's so close is still so far out of reach.
Tom Petty
Image
At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
Tom Petty
Image
But not me, baby, I've got you to save me.
Tom Petty
Image
We could move catalog, if he'd only die quicker.
Tom Petty
Image
Redemption comes to those who wait, forgiveness is the key.
Tom Petty
Image
Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?
Tom Petty
Image
I'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.
Tom Petty
Image
You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don't have to live like a refugee.
Tom Petty
Image
I'm not trying to be cool. I have a problem with lights. I have one eye that's become super-sensitive to lighting, so I do wear sunglasses quite a bit.
Tom Petty
Image
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
Tom Petty
Image
I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
Tom Petty
Image
Good loving is hard to find, you got lucky babe, when I found you.
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
Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time.
Tom Petty
Image
I should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it's such a drag when you're livin' in the past
Tom Petty
Image
Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.
Tom Petty
Image
Most magic is a trick, an illusion. But [when The Beatles played the Ed Sullivan Show], this was real. Man oh man, was it real.
Tom Petty
Image
I 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.
Tom Petty
Image
There was rock and roll across the dial, when I think of her it makes me smile.
Tom Petty