Tom Petty Quotes

American musician

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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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.

Yeah and it's over before you know it.
It all goes by so fast.
Yeah, the bad nights last forever,
And the good nights don't ever seem to last

No more songs tonight,
I'm drivin' to the break of day.
No more words tonight,
We've got enough to throw away.

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.

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

I remember her standing in the tall grass and cattails
Away from the windows at the end of the day.
Watching the men from the landing in the tall hats & coat-tails.
She'd never look different, but something would change.

Look deep in the eyes of love
And find out what you were looking for.

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

So I started out for God knows where.
I guess I'll know when I get there.

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

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

And it's hard to say
Who you are these days.
But you run on anyway,
Don't you baby?

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.

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.

Restless sleep, twisted dreams
Moving targets, silent screams.
Restless city, restless street
Restless you, restless me.