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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So I started out for God knows where. I guess I’ll know when I get there.
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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’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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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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The waiting is the hardest part.
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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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Any time you’re making a living at what you love to do, you’re blessed.
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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
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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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Running down a dream… working on a mystery… going wherever it leads.
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I’m not any happier anywhere than when I’m in the studio. I’m over the moon about it. It keeps me young, it keeps me feeling like I have some purpose.
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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 don’t treat the band like I’m above them or that they’re a hired hand for me. We’ve never worked that way. So I’m a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.
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I don’t understand the ones that have no sense of hope and invest in hate. That’s not gonna work out, you know? It’s a waste of your time!
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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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