Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I’m concerned, that’s success.
TOM PETTYYou spend your life dreaming, running ’round in a trance, You hang out forever and still miss the dance, And if you get lucky, you might find someone, To help you get over the pain that will come.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
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I would never put my songs in a commercial.
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I’ll stand my ground and I won’t back down.
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You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.
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The waiting is the hardest part.
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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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There’s a freeway running through the yard.
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Last dance with Mary Jane One more time to kill the pain I feel summer creepin’ in and I’m Tired of this town again.
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I’m always having fun. Playing is fun. Music is fun.
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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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I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.
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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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Some days are diamonds, some days are rocks. Some doors are opened, some roads are blocked. Sundowns are golden, then fade away. And if I never do nothing, I’ll get you back someday.
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If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.
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Honey, don’t walk out, I’m too drunk to follow.
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God, it’s so painful when something that’s so close is still so far out of reach.
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You believe what you want to believe.
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The waiting is the hardest part, every day you get one more yard. You take it on faith, you take it to the heart, the waiting is hardest part.
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Some grow young, some grow cold.
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I got my own way of praying.
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Excuse me if I have some place in my mind where I go time to time.
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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.
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I don’t think it’s a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.
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Free Fallin” is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn’t become this huge anthem. But I’m grateful that people like it.
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Good loving is hard to find, you got lucky babe, when I found you.
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Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.
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