Tom Petty: Trending quotes (page 5)

“Good love is hard to find.
You got lucky, babe.
You got lucky, babe, when I found you.”

Tom Petty

You Got Lucky, written with Mike Campbell
Lyrics, Long After Dark (1982)

Love

“Yeah, the world would swing if I were king.
Can I help it if I still dream time to time?”

Tom Petty

It's Good To Be King
Lyrics, Wildflowers (1994)

World , Dreams , Time , Help

“There were times apart, there were times together.
I was pledged to her for worse or better.
When it mattered most I let her down.
That's the way it goes, it'll all work out.”

Tom Petty

It'll All Work Out
Lyrics, Let Me Up (I've Had Enough) (1987)

Way , Time

“Baby, you've got a heart so big,
It could crush this town.
But I can't hold out forever.
Even walls fall down.”

Tom Petty

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

Heart , Baby

“I want her more than diamonds,
I want her more than gold.
I want her more than anything
Anyone could hold.”

Tom Petty

Built to Last, written with Jeff Lynne
Lyrics, Into The Great Wide Open (1991)

“Honey don't walk out, I'm too drunk to follow.
You know you won't feel this way tomorrow.
Well, maybe I'm a little rough around the edges,
Inside a little hollow.
I get faced with some things sometimes
That are so hard to swallow.”

Tom Petty

Rebels
Lyrics, Southern Accents (1985)

Way , Feeling

“I don't feel you anymore.
You darken my door.
Whatever you're looking for.
Hey don't come around here no more.”

Tom Petty

Don't Come Around Here No More, written with Dave Stewart
Lyrics, Southern Accents (1985)

Feeling

“I've got someone who loves me tonight.
I've got over a thousand dollars in the bank,
And I'm all right.”

Tom Petty

Room At The Top
Lyrics, Echo (1999)

Love

“Louisiana rain now is falling just like tears.
Running down my face washing out the years.
Louisiana rain is soaking through my shoes.
I may never be the same when I reach Baton Rouge.”

Tom Petty

Louisiana Rain
Lyrics, Damn The Torpedoes (1979)

Shoe , Tear

“There's a southern accent, where I come from.
The young 'uns call it country, the Yankees call it dumb.”

Tom Petty

Southern Accents
Lyrics, Southern Accents (1985)

Country

“I know so well the look on your face
And there's somethin' lucky about this place
There's somethin' good comin'
Just over the hill
Somethin' good comin'
I know it will

And I'm in for the long run
Wherever it goes
Ridin' the river
Wherever it goes.”

Tom Petty

"Something Good Coming"
Lyrics, Mojo (2010)

“An act like ours wouldn't even be around today if someone hadn't brought us along and let us make mistakes and grow at our own pace. Today it seems that if you don't have a hit — or even if you do — they have no use for you the next time.”

Tom Petty

Rolling Stone interview (2002)

Time

“I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem. You know, I saw a billboard in New York I wish I had photographed. It was for the TNN network. It said three words against a patriotic background of red, white and blue — BIGGER, YOUNGER, RICHER. Now, I find that fascinating: 'Bigger, younger, richer.' This whole idea of being wealthy has gone too far. I never ride in a limousine, you know. I feel gross if I get in a limousine. One good thing about the sixties was it sort of was the opposite back then. You looked silly trying to appear rich.”

Tom Petty

Rolling Stone interview (2002)

Life , Feeling , Idea , Thinking

“Take back your insurance,
Baby nothin's guaranteed.”

Tom Petty

Jammin' Me, written with Bob Dylan and Mike Campbell
Lyrics, Let Me Up (I've Had Enough) (1987)

Baby

“Well she was an American girl, raised on promises.
She couldn't help thinkin' that there was a little more to life somewhere else.
After all, it was a great big world with lots of places to run to.
Yeah, and if she had to die tryin', she had one little promise she was gonna keep.”

Tom Petty

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

Life , World , Girl , Help

“The waiting is the hardest part.
Every day you see one more card.
You take it on faith, you take it to the heart.
The waiting is the hardest part.”

Tom Petty

The Waiting
Lyrics, Hard Promises (1981)

Faith , Waiting , Heart , Parting

“I'm learning to fly,
But I ain't got wings.
Coming down
Is the hardest thing.”

Tom Petty

Learning to Fly, written with Jeff Lynne
Lyrics, Into The Great Wide Open (1991)

Learning , Flying

“If we don't get to a higher place and
Find somebody, can help somebody,
Might be nobody no more.”

Tom Petty

A Higher Place
Lyrics, Wildflowers (1994)

Help

“I don't want to end up
In a room all alone
Don't want to end up someone
That I don't even know.”

Tom Petty

King's Highway
Lyrics, Into The Great Wide Open (1991)

“It's good to be king, If just for a while.
To be there in velvet, yea to give 'em a smile.
It's good to get high, and never comedown.
It's good to be king of your own little town.”

Tom Petty

It's Good To Be King
Lyrics, Wildflowers (1994)

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