There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.
TOM PETTYI’m so tired of being tired. Sure as night will follow day most things I worry about will never happen anyway.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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The poison came in liquid, she was naked all the time.
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Yeah, the world would swing if I were king. Can I help it if I still dream time to time?
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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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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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I’ve never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I’m pleasantly surprised when it does.
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Some days are diamonds, some days are rocks. Some doors are opened, some roads are blocked. Sundowns are golden, then fade away. And if I never do nothing, I’ll get you back someday.
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I would never put my songs in a commercial.
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I’ve always had a great love for the blues.
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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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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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Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I’m concerned, that’s success.
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Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.
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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. You see, you don’t have to live like a refugee.
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I’m not trying to be cool. I have a problem with lights. I have one eye that’s become super-sensitive to lighting, so I do wear sunglasses quite a bit.
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I have never been comfortable being the front man.
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I ain’t really sure, but it seems I remember the good times.
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You were the one who made things different, you were the one who took me in. You were the one thing I could count on, above all, you were my friend.
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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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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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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 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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At the end of the day, you’re just phonograph records.
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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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So I started out for God knows where. I guess I’ll know when I get there.
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Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.
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