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.
TOM PETTYI 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.”
More Tom Petty Quotes
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She’s a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
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But not me, baby, I’ve got you to save me.
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I love the music. I’m never, ever tired of playing it.
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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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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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I wouldn’t want to get stuck being an oldie-goldie group, but I don’t mind. I think all the trouble you go through these days to go to one of these concerts, I think I owe them a bit of what they came to hear.
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I got my own way of praying.
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As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you’ll pay for what you used to get for free.
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I’m barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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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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I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.
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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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No matter how long you play the guitar, there’s always something else to learn.
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I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.
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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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