I like making money like anybody else, and I’m paid well, but I think there is a point at which you can out-price your audience or your base.
TOM PETTYI’m so tired of being tired. Sure as night will follow day most things I worry about will never happen anyway.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.
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I’m actually better on the guitar than when I started, I think, because I’ve had so much time with it and I still practice and I love to do it and I love to sing.
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I’m learning to fly, but I ain’t got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.
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I have never been comfortable being the front man.
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I love the music. I’m never, ever tired of playing it.
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But not me, baby, I’ve got you to save me.
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Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I’m concerned, that’s success.
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The poison came in liquid, she was naked all the time.
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No matter how long you play the guitar, there’s always something else to learn.
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So I started out for God knows where. I guess I’ll know when I get there.
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As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you’ll pay for what you used to get for free.
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If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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I’ll stand my ground and I won’t back down.
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That’s stupid. You couldn’t pay me to go. I’m not oversimplifying it. That’s what’s going on. I don’t think it would be any fun without the drugs. It’s a drug party.
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My sister got lucky, married a yuppie, and took him for all he was worth. Now she’s a swinger dating a singer, I can’t decide which is worse.
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Redemption comes to those who wait, forgiveness is the key.
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A rebel without a clue.
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I love history, doesn’t matter what era, I’m fascinated.
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I think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck.
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Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.
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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.
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Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
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I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.
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If you don’t run, you rust.
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I’m barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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At the end of the day, you’re just phonograph records.
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