At the end of the day, you’re just phonograph records.
TOM PETTYWe 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.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
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I would never put my songs in a commercial.
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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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I’m tired of screwing up. I’m tired of being down. I’m tired of myself. I’m tired of bein’ down.
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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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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 have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.
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My sister got lucky, married a yuppie, and took him for all he was worth. Now she’s a swinger dating a singer, I can’t decide which is worse.
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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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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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The waiting is the hardest part, every day you get one more yard. You take it on faith, you take it to the heart, the waiting is hardest part.
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Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you’ll be a happy person.
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I’m always having fun. Playing is fun. Music is fun.
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I love history, doesn’t matter what era, I’m fascinated.
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I think for it to be hip to be idealistic is weird, you know? I mean, even all the best rebels to me, had some sense of hope in them.
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