292 Quotes by Tom Petty

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

He [George Harrison] told me he really, really admired John [Lennon]. He probably wanted John's acceptance pretty bad, you know?

When I met Elvis, we didn't really have a conversation. I was introduced by my uncle, and he sort of grunted my way. What stays with me is the whole scene. I had never seen a real mob scene before. I was really young and impressionable. Elvis really did look - he looked sort of not real, as if he were glowing.

No matter how long you play the guitar, there's always something else to learn.

I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.

You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.

At the end of the day, you're just phonograph records.

When I was a kid, we didn't have any blues stations. I never heard Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters or any of those people until the Stones had come along, and I took it upon myself to find out who these people were that they were covering.

If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.