292 Quotes by Tom Petty

I’m so tired of being tired. Sure as night will follow day most things I worry about will never happen anyway.

I’m not trying to be cool. I have a problem with lights. I have one eye that’s become super-sensitive to lighting, so I do wear sunglasses quite a bit.

Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can’t stay long.

I ain’t really sure, but it seems I remember the good times.

I’m learning to fly, but I ain’t got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.

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.

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

Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There’s not some trick involved with it. It’s pure and it’s real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.

I’m always having fun. Playing is fun. Music is fun.