No matter how long you play the guitar, there’s always something else to learn.
TOM PETTYWe could move catalog, if he’d only die quicker.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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What I’ve learned about marriage: You need to have each other’s back; you have to be a kind of team going through life.
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And the days went by like paper in the wind. Everything changed, then changed again. It’s hard to find a friend. It’s hard to find a friend.
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I ain’t really sure, but it seems I remember the good times.
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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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Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
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I got my own way of praying.
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As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you’ll pay for what you used to get for free.
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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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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
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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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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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If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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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 believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there.
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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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