Running down a dream… working on a mystery… going wherever it leads.
TOM PETTYYou 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.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
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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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Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I’m concerned, that’s success.
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Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
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I’m learning to fly, but I ain’t got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.
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I’m always having fun. Playing is fun. Music is fun.
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I would never put my songs in a commercial.
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I’m not interested in the TV much. I quit watching the news a couple years ago and my outlook on life has gotten a whole lot better.
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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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You believe what you want to believe.
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I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.
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I’m not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.
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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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You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.
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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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A rebel without a clue.
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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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I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.
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Honey, don’t walk out, I’m too drunk to follow.
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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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We could move catalog, if he’d only die quicker.
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When you kill somebody’s little sister with a missile, he’s going to hate you forever. And the next generation will hate you even more.
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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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George Harrison was the kind of guy who wasn’t going to leave until he hugged you for five minutes and told you how much he loved you.
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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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I think it’s important to always offer something new.
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