292 Quotes by Tom Petty

The music has to be affordable. It's the common man that keeps it going, and if you price it out of his realm, it becomes a thing of the elite.

I didn't worry about my career ending, but there were days where I felt pretty beat up by it all and just pretty tired, because they didn't make it easy for me. And coming right off the last lawsuit, it was the last thing I wanted to get involved in. When it was over, we didn't really celebrate, we were just exhausted. I lost all interest in the record business and never wanted to do anything except hand in a record again.

When you kill somebody's little sister with a missile, he's going to hate you forever. And the next generation will hate you even more.

I love the music. I'm never, ever tired of playing it.

As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you'll pay for what you used to get for free.

If 20,000 people start to sing, you tend to go along with it.

Some grow young, some grow cold...

I think it's important to always offer something new.

'Free Fallin'' is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn't become this huge anthem. But I'm grateful that people like it.