No matter how long you play the guitar, there’s always something else to learn.
TOM PETTYI 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.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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I’m not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.
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You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world.
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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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At the end of the day, you’re just phonograph records.
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You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.
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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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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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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 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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You belong somewhere you feel free.
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Excuse me if I have some place in my mind where I go time to time.
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I’ve always had a great love for the blues.
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A rebel without a clue.
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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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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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