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.
TOM PETTYExcuse me if I have some place in my mind where I go time to time.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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Honey, don’t walk out, I’m too drunk to follow.
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Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.
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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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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 got my own way of praying.
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You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but 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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Any time you’re making a living at what you love to do, you’re blessed.
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There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.
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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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That’s stupid. You couldn’t pay me to go. I’m not oversimplifying it. That’s what’s going on. I don’t think it would be any fun without the drugs. It’s a drug party.
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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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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
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We don’t really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we’ve been taken for granted.
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I’m always having fun. Playing is fun. Music is fun.
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