I don’t think it’s a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.
TOM PETTYAt twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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I’m not trying to be cool. I have a problem with lights. I have one eye that’s become super-sensitive to lighting, so I do wear sunglasses quite a bit.
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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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Good loving is hard to find, you got lucky babe, when I found you.
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God, it’s so painful when something that’s so close is still so far out of reach.
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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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You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don’t take life for granted any more. I’m really glad to be here.
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I’ve always had a great love for the blues.
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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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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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But not me, baby, I’ve got you to save me.
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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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If you don’t run, you rust.
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When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you’ve always got a different ache or pain.
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Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.
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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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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
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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 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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There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.
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Some days are diamonds, some days are rocks. Some doors are opened, some roads are blocked. Sundowns are golden, then fade away. And if I never do nothing, I’ll get you back someday.
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Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
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Any time you’re making a living at what you love to do, you’re blessed.
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We could move catalog, if he’d only die quicker.
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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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I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.
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No matter how long you play the guitar, there’s always something else to learn.
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