Tom Petty: Trending quotes (page 3)

“You're flirting with time baby
Flirting with time, but maybe,
Time baby, is catching up with you.”

Tom Petty

Flirting with Time
Lyrics, Highway Companion (2006)

Time , Baby

“I'll be the boy in the corduroy pants.
You be the girl at the high school dance.”

Tom Petty

You Wreck Me, written with Mike Campbell
Lyrics, Wildflowers (1994)

School , Girl , Boy , Dance

“There was no use in pretending,
No magic left to hear.
All the music gave me
Was a craving for light beer.”

Tom Petty

Money Becomes King
Lyrics, The Last DJ (2002)

Music , Beer , Light

“I don't understand the ones that have no sense of hope and invest in hate. That's not gonna work out, you know? It's a waste of your time!”

Tom Petty

Interview With Alan Bangs (1999)

Hate , Hope , Understanding , Sense

“Redemption comes to those who wait,
Forgiveness is the key.”

Tom Petty

Lonesome Sundown
Lyrics, Echo (1999)

Forgiveness , Waiting

“I was talkin' with a friend of mine,
Said a woman done hurt his pride.
Told him that she loved him so, then
Turned around and let him go.
Then he said "you'd better watch your step"
Or you're gonna get hurt yourself.
Someone's gonna tell you lies
Cut you down to size…”

Tom Petty

Don't Do Me Like That
Lyrics, Damn The Torpedoes (1979)

Love , Hurt

“And you may think it's all over.
But there'll be more just like me
Who won't give in;
Who'll rise again.
Can't stop a man from dreaming.”

Tom Petty

Can't Stop the Sun, written with Mike Campbell
Lyrics, The Last DJ (2002)

Dreams , Thinking

“Young people are very cynical now, you know? Very cynical! They've been taught cynicism, they've been — they've been bred cynicism. So, I think it's important to give them hope and realism in the same package, you know? You can be realistic but there should be — there should be hope in it. Because hope's what we're about. If we don't have hope then we don't go on.”

Tom Petty

Interview With Alan Bangs (1999)

People , Hope , Thinking

“Here am I a fallen arrow.
My load is wide, my street is narrow.
My skin is thicker, my heart is tougher.
I don't mind workin', but I'm scared to suffer.
You know? You know?”

Tom Petty

All or Nothin, written with Mike Campbell and Jeff Lynne
Lyrics, Into The Great Wide Open (1991)

Suffering , Heart

“I'm an insider, I been burned by the fire.
And I've had to live with some hard promises.
I've crawled through the briars,
I'm an insider.”

Tom Petty

Insider
Lyrics, Hard Promises (1981)

“I think television's become a downright dangerous thing. It has no moral barometer whatsoever. If you want to talk about something that is all about money, just watch the television. It's damn dangerous. TV does not care about you or what happens to you. It's downright bad for your health now, and that's not a far-out concept. I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health. The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.”

Tom Petty

Rolling Stone interview (2002)

Money , Health , Music , Business

“Wherever you are tonight,
I wish you the best of everything, in the world.
And I hope you found
Whatever you were looking for.”

Tom Petty

The Best of Everything
Lyrics, Southern Accents (1985)

World , Hope

“Create myself down south.
Impress all the women.
Pretend I'm Samuel Clemens.
ear seersucker and white linens.”

Tom Petty

Down South
Lyrics, Highway Companion (2006)

Women

“I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there. And I think a lot of these young kids are going to have to learn the hard way before they realize that you can actually do some damage if you're being careless or frivolous in what you're saying.”

Tom Petty

Rolling Stone interview (2002)

Way , Thinking , Learning

“And for one desperate moment
There he crept back in her memory.
God it's so painful, something that's so close
Is still so far out of reach.”

Tom Petty

American Girl
Lyrics, Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers (1974)

God , Pain , Memory

“For just a minute there I was dreaming.
For just a minute it was all so real.
For just a minute she was standing there, with me.”

Tom Petty

Southern Accents
Lyrics, Southern Accents (1985)

Dreams

“All the vampires walkin' through the valley
Move west down Ventura Boulevard.
And all the bad boys are standing in the shadows
All the good girls are home with broken hearts.”

Tom Petty

Free Fallin, written with Jeff Lynne
Lyrics, Full Moon Fever (1989)

Home , Girl , Boy , Heart

“I saw an angel, I saw my fate.
I can only thank God it was not too late.”

Tom Petty

Angel Dream (No. 4)
Lyrics, Songs and Music from "She's the One" (1996)

God , Fate , Angels

“My baby is a rock n' roller.”

Tom Petty

Baby's A Rock 'N' Roller, written with Mike Campbell
Lyrics, You're Gonna Get It! (1978)

Baby

“Some days are diamonds.
Some days are rocks.”

Tom Petty

Walls (Circus)
Lyrics, Songs and Music from "She's the One" (1996)