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.
TOM PETTYI developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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I think it’s important to always offer something new.
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I like a good beer. Of course, I’ll drink a bad one too. Let no person thirst for lack of real ale! Thank god for long-necked bottles, the angel’s remedy.
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We could move catalog, if he’d only die quicker.
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I don’t think it’s a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.
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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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But not me, baby, I’ve got you to save me.
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When you kill somebody’s little sister with a missile, he’s going to hate you forever. And the next generation will hate you even more.
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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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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.
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Some grow young, some grow cold.
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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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Excuse me if I have some place in my mind where I go time to time.
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I’m not interested in the TV much. I quit watching the news a couple years ago and my outlook on life has gotten a whole lot better.
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Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.
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I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.
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