I’ve never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I’m pleasantly surprised when it does.
TOM PETTYTime to move on, time to get going. What lies ahead I have no way of knowing. But under my feet, baby, grass is growing.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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Honey, don’t walk out, I’m too drunk to follow.
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Time to move on, time to get going. What lies ahead I have no way of knowing. But under my feet, baby, grass is growing.
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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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Any time you’re making a living at what you love to do, you’re blessed.
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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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Even the losers get lucky sometimes. Even the losers keep a little bit of pride. They get lucky sometimes.
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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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If you stretch your imagination, I’ll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn’t up for sale.
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I always tell my kids, “Find something that you love and within that you’ll find some job that you can do and you’ll always be happy. You’ll go to a job that you want to go to.”
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I don’t understand the ones that have no sense of hope and invest in hate. That’s not gonna work out, you know? It’s a waste of your time!
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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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I have never been comfortable being the front man.
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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 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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