Quote

I've always had a great love for the blues.

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.
Love
Blues
Great
Always

More quotes by Tom Petty

Image
Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time.
Tom Petty
Image
I never could have dreamed that her heart was so wicked, but I keep coming back because it's so hard to kick it.
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
Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.
Tom Petty
Image
Redemption comes to those who wait, forgiveness is the key.
Tom Petty
Image
You believe what you want to believe
Tom Petty
Image
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
Image
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.
Tom Petty
Image
I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated.
Tom Petty
Image
But not me, baby, I've got you to save me.
Tom Petty
Image
I'm actually better on the guitar than when I started, I think, because I've had so much time with it and I still practice and I love to do it and I love to sing.
Tom Petty
Image
I'm certainly not a Robin Hood, I'm not that way. I don't want to come through, burn everybody for $200 a ticket and then they can't afford to come see me again. Plus, I just don't think it's right. I don't think we need that much money. I just do what seems like the logical thing to do.
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
Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
Tom Petty
Image
I like a good beer. Of course, I'll drink a bad one too. Let no person thirst for lack of real ale! Thank god for long-necked bottles, the angel's remedy.
Tom Petty
Image
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
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
Good loving is hard to find, you got lucky babe, when I found you.
Tom Petty
Image
Last dance with Mary Jane One more time to kill the pain I feel summer creepin' in and I'm Tired of this town again
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