Quote

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

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.
Time
Bigs
Interested
Making
Behinds
Means
Behind
Better
Records
Wanted
Leave
Mean
Goes
Refined
Going
Party
Heads
Long
Getting
Record

More quotes by Tom Petty

Image
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.
Tom Petty
Image
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
Image
A rebel without a clue.
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
Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time.
Tom Petty
Image
Oh yeah, alright, take it easy baby, make it last all night. She was an American Girl.
Tom Petty
Image
Eddie waited 'til he finished high school, he went to Hollywood, got a tattoo.
Tom Petty
Image
Redemption comes to those who wait, forgiveness is the key.
Tom Petty
Image
But not me, baby, I've got you to save me.
Tom Petty
Image
She's a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
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
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
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 learning to fly, but I ain't got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.
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
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
We could move catalog, if he'd only die quicker.
Tom Petty
Image
Buy me a drink, sing me a song take me as I come, cause I can't stay long.
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
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