Tom Petty

"You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here."

Top Tom Petty Quotes

"You and I will meet again, When we're least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won't say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again."

"Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success."

"When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music."

"It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music."

"I'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily."

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