Tom Petty Quotes

1950–2017 United States

Thomas Earl "Tom" Petty (20 October 1950 - 2 October 2017) was an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He was the frontman of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers and was a founding member of the late 1980s supergroup Traveling Wilburys.

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Also known as: Petty, Tom, Tom petty and the heartbreakers

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And I'd show you stars you never could see
Baby, it couldn't have been that easy to forget about me.

I'm in for the long run
Wherever it goes
Ridin' the river
Wherever it goes.

Think of me what you will,
I've got a little space to fill.

It's alright if you love me,
It's alright if you don't.
I'm not afraid of you runnin' away,
Honey I get the feeling you won't.

Let me get to the point
Let's roll another joint
Turn the radio loud
I'm too alone to be proud.

I don't understand the ones that have no sense of hope and invest in hate. That's not gonna work out, you know? It's a waste of your time!

Interview With Alan Bangs (1999)

Well I won't back down,
No I won't back down.
You could stand me up at the gates of hell,
But I won't back down.

Yeah runnin' down a dream
That never would come to me.
Workin' on a mystery, goin' wherever it leads.
I'm runnin' down a dream.

I think for it to be unhip to be idealistic is weird, you know? I mean, even all the best rebels to me had some sense of hope in them.

Interview With Alan Bangs (1999)

Always had more dogs than bones

If we're born in God's image, then God knows how we can fuck up. And he knows that you really didn't mean it.

Esquire interview (2006)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Tom Petty (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.