Running down a dream… working on a mystery… going wherever it leads.
TOM PETTYMusic really isn’t supposed to be perfect. It’s all about people relating to each other and doing something that’s really from the soul. It must come from the soul.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.
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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 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 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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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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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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I got my own way of praying.
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The waiting is the hardest part.
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She’s a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
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I’ve always had a great love for the blues.
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We could move catalog, if he’d only die quicker.
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Most things I worry about never happen anyway.
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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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You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world.
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Excuse me if I have some place in my mind where I go time to time.
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No matter how long you play the guitar, there’s always something else to learn.
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I’ve never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I’m pleasantly surprised when it does.
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Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
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I should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it’s such a drag when you’re livin’ in the past
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You were the one who made things different, you were the one who took me in. You were the one thing I could count on, above all, you were my friend.
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I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.
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I’ve got a room at the top of the world tonight. I can see everything tonight.
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I’m not trying to be cool. I have a problem with lights. I have one eye that’s become super-sensitive to lighting, so I do wear sunglasses quite a bit.
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You 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.
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A rebel without a clue.
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When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you’ve always got a different ache or pain.
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