Tom Petty Quotes (34 Quotes)

I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.

I'm frustrated by what I hear. Maybe it's not meant for me. Personally, I'm way too bright for a lot of the hip-hop lyrics to affect. I'm much too smart to think that jewelry or how cool I am is really going to change much about my personality. If you're dumb enough that it entertains you, have a great time. But I am seeking more than that.

It'll All Work Out.

We were pretty efficient in the first half. Our passing was pretty good against their zone.

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 time you wasted hanging out with your friends. So, stay out late. Go out on a Tuesday with your friends when you have a paper due Wednesday. Spend money you don't have. Drink 'til sunrise. The work never ends, but college does...

I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.

We've been sent here to raise hell and cause chaos.

I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.

Most things I worry about never happen anyway.

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.

We said 'You're going to have to quit this. It's gonna get you. You just don't win with heroin. You die or you go to jail. There's no middle ground. There's no other options,'

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.

We enjoy playing with each other, which I think is a pretty important part of this. If we didn't, we'd have given it up a long time ago. The idea when we started was to take five people and keep 'em together no matter what and see what we could get out of it, and we've pretty much stuck to that plan.

the waiting is the hardest part.

TV does not care about you or what happens to you. It's downright bad for your health now, and that's not a far-out concept. I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.

This award comes at a particularly nice time, as the Heartbreakers and I go into the 30th year of our career, I'm very honored that Billboard has acknowledged me with this award.

You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.

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

It's better to burn out, then to fade away.

Even the losers get lucky sometimes. Even the losers keep a little bit of pride. They get lucky sometimes.

A person could visualize him putting on 20 pounds and being the kind of tight end you watch on Saturdays. By the same token, hes got the kind of jump shot, agility and ball skills to make somebody a real nice forward.

Yeah and its 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.

We haven't always been boy scouts, but we never lost sight of the music, Let me remind you that this ain't the end.

It's very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it's really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music.

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.

The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.

You've also got to rebound the basketball, and I think Hartley will be the biggest challenge we've faced this year.

I'm reaching there to try and find a theme. It's just a really nice collection of songs. I think it does have an underlying theme of time and what it does to you.

like a deer in the headlights, frozen in real time and I'm losing my mind, it's time to move on.

We have a set list, but we work up a lot more (songs) than we're gonna do. That way we can throw things in and change it around, especially if we're in a place for two days. It's good to keep yourself interested. The last show we did five songs we never rehearsed and that certainly sparked us up.

Let me run with you tonight, I'll take you on a moonlit ride...

I think television's become a downright dangerous thing. It has no moral barometer whatsoever. If you want to talk about something that is all about money, just watch the television.

I really do love coming to this particular place.

It didn't affect his ability for a long time. Heroin can be like that with musicians I think that's why you see so many musicians drift that way, because you can remain musical for a long time. But I think, without exception, they all hit the wall eventually and the creativity goes.