292 Quotes by Tom Petty

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

That’s stupid. You couldn’t pay me to go. I’m not oversimplifying it. That’s what’s going on. I don’t think it would be any fun without the drugs. It’s a drug party.

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.

Honey, don’t walk out, I’m too drunk to follow.

You will never be told when the next bit of education is coming or where it’s coming from or who the teacher will be. That information will only reveal itself after the fact. All that you can do is leave a little room there for the next lesson to come through. Someone will be carrying it. You just leave the door open a crack.

You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don’t have to live like a refugee.

I don’t know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I’m at during a particular moment in time.

There’s a freeway running through the yard.

I’m not any happier anywhere than when I’m in the studio. I’m over the moon about it. It keeps me young, it keeps me feeling like I have some purpose.