If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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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Just wonderin’, waitin’, worryin’ about some silly little things, that just don’t add up to nothin’.
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Let’s get to the point Let’s roll another joint.
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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 it’s important to always offer something new.
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In a world that keeps on pushing me around, I’m gonna stand my ground, and I won’t back down.
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The waiting is the hardest part.
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Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.
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Most things I worry about never happen anyway.
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I’ve always had a great love for the blues.
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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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Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
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She’s a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
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You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.
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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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I’m not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.
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You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won’t back down.
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I love history, doesn’t matter what era, I’m fascinated.
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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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So I started out for God knows where. I guess I’ll know when I get there.
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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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Even the losers get lucky sometimes. Even the losers keep a little bit of pride. They get lucky sometimes.
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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 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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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.
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I’ve never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I’m pleasantly surprised when it does.
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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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