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.
TOM PETTYSomewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?
More Tom Petty Quotes
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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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Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can’t stay long.
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I’ll stand my ground and I won’t back down.
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You believe what you want to believe.
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I got my own way of praying.
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I love the music. I’m never, ever tired of playing it.
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If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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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’m not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.
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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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You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.
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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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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 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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