Excuse me if I have some place in my mind where I go time to time.
TOM PETTYI always liked the idea of the guitar – because cowboys played the guitar.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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I got my own way of praying.
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Oh yeah, alright, take it easy baby, make it last all night. She was an American Girl.
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I love history, doesn’t matter what era, I’m fascinated.
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We don’t really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we’ve been taken for granted.
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Running down a dream… working on a mystery… going wherever it leads.
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Time to move on, time to get going. What lies ahead I have no way of knowing. But under my feet, baby, grass is growing.
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I always tell my kids, “Find something that you love and within that you’ll find some job that you can do and you’ll always be happy. You’ll go to a job that you want to go to.”
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I would never put my songs in a commercial.
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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.
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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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If I’d had to work at Taco Bell I’d have still been out at night trying to play music.
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When you kill somebody’s little sister with a missile, he’s going to hate you forever. And the next generation will hate you even more.
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She’s a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
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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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Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There’s not some trick involved with it. It’s pure and it’s real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.
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