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.
TOM PETTYI had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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Some grow young, some grow cold.
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Honey, don’t walk out, I’m too drunk to follow.
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I’m so tired of being tired. Sure as night will follow day most things I worry about will never happen anyway.
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I have never been comfortable being the front man.
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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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Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can’t stay long.
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If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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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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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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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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Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.
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The waiting is the hardest part.
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Let’s get to the point Let’s roll another joint.
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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 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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