I should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it’s such a drag when you’re livin’ in the past
TOM PETTYI think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There’s not some trick involved with it. It’s pure and it’s real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.
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You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.
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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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You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world.
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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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If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
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Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.
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If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.
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You belong somewhere you feel free.
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I’m not any happier anywhere than when I’m in the studio. I’m over the moon about it. It keeps me young, it keeps me feeling like I have some purpose.
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How about a cheer for all those bad girls! And all those boys that play that rock ‘n’ roll! They love it like you love Jesus.
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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 like a good beer. Of course, I’ll drink a bad one too. Let no person thirst for lack of real ale! Thank god for long-necked bottles, the angel’s remedy.
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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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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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Yeah, the world would swing if I were king. Can I help it if I still dream time to time?
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It’s very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it’s really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music.
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Redemption comes to those who wait, forgiveness is the key.
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We could move catalog, if he’d only die quicker.
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But not me, baby, I’ve got you to save me.
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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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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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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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You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won’t back down.
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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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