292 Quotes by Tom Petty

I always tell my kids, "Find something that you love and within that you'll find some job that you can do and you'll always be happy. You'll go to a job that you want to go to."

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.

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

If you're not getting older, you're dead.

If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music.

God, it's so painful when something that's so close is still so far out of reach.

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.

Music really isn’t supposed to be perfect. It’s all about people relating to each other and doing something that’s really from the soul. It must come from the soul.

I think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck.