If I’d had to work at Taco Bell I’d have still been out at night trying to play music.
TOM PETTYI’ve never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I’m pleasantly surprised when it does.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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I’ve always had a great love for the blues.
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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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We don’t really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we’ve been taken for granted.
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I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.
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I ain’t really sure, but it seems I remember the good times.
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Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
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A rebel without a clue.
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Free Fallin” is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn’t become this huge anthem. But I’m grateful that people like it.
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Music 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.
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Oh yeah, alright, take it easy baby, make it last all night. She was an American Girl.
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Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
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Some grow young, some grow cold.
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I think it’s important to always offer something new.
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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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You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don’t have to live like a refugee.
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Excuse me if I have some place in my mind where I go time to time.
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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 have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.
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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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Some days are diamonds, some days are rocks. Some doors are opened, some roads are blocked. Sundowns are golden, then fade away. And if I never do nothing, I’ll get you back someday.
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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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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.
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I would never put my songs in a commercial.
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I have never been comfortable being the front man.
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You and I will meet again, When we’re least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won’t say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again.
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