Tom Petty Quotes

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Thomas Earl "Tom" Petty (20 October 1950 - 2 October 2017) was an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He was the frontman of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers and was a founding member of the late 1980s supergroup Traveling Wilburys.

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Birth Name: Thomas Earl Petty

Alternative Names: Charlie T. Wilbury Jr. • Muddy Wilbury • Charlie T. Jnr Wilbury

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It's alright if you love me,
It's alright if you don't.
I'm not afraid of you runnin' away,
Honey I get the feeling you won't.

But if you shoot at everyone you see,
Can't be my friend 'cause you might shoot at me.

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

She's got nothing to hide,
And she hides it so well.
Keeps broken dreams
To fix up and sell.

You don't hear any more of, 'Hey, we did something creative and we turned a profit, how about that?' Everywhere we look, we want to make the most money possible. This is a dangerous, corrupt notion. That's where you see the advent of programming on the radio, and radio research, all these silly things. That has made pop music what it is today. Everything — morals, truth — is all going out the window in favor of profit.

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.

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

I remember feeling this way,
You can lose it without knowing.
You wake up and you don't notice
Which way the wind is blowing

Take back your insurance,
Baby nothin's guaranteed.

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

There is no sense in pretending,
Your eyes give you away.
Something inside you is feeling like I do,
We've said all there is to say.

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

You follow your feelings, you follow your dreams;
You follow the leader into the trees.
And what's in there waiting, neither one of us knows.
You gotta keep one eye open the further you go.

Well I don't know but I've been told, you never slow down, you never grow old.

Well some say life
Will beat you down,
And break your heart,
Steal your crown.<p>So it started out
For God-knows-where.
I guess I'll know
When I get there.