She’s a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
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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I’m barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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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 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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That’s stupid. You couldn’t pay me to go. I’m not oversimplifying it. That’s what’s going on. I don’t think it would be any fun without the drugs. It’s a drug party.
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Any time you’re making a living at what you love to do, you’re blessed.
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I’ll stand my ground and I won’t back down.
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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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If I’d had to work at Taco Bell I’d have still been out at night trying to play music.
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There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.
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It’s funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can’t afford the music.
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Let’s get to the point Let’s roll another joint.
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Most things I worry about never happen anyway.
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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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George Harrison was the kind of guy who wasn’t going to leave until he hugged you for five minutes and told you how much he loved you.
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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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