If you look around at America, that’s one of its biggest problems is you have corporations that can never be pleased at a profit.
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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Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
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Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can’t stay long.
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I never could have dreamed that her heart was so wicked, but I keep coming back because it’s so hard to kick it.
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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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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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You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.
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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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We could move catalog, if he’d only die quicker.
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But not me, baby, I’ve got you to save me.
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It’s funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can’t afford the music.
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It’s very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it’s really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music.
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How about a cheer for all those bad girls! And all those boys that play that rock ‘n’ roll! They love it like you love Jesus.
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Most things I worry about never happen anyway.
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You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don’t have to live like a refugee.
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I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.
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