I don’t think it’s a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.
TOM PETTYI’m learning to fly, but I ain’t got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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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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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 so tired of being tired. Sure as night will follow day most things I worry about will never happen anyway.
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Excuse me if I have some place in my mind where I go time to time.
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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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We could move catalog, if he’d only die quicker.
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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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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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If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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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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Just wonderin’, waitin’, worryin’ about some silly little things, that just don’t add up to nothin’.
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You belong among the wildflowers You belong in a boat out at sea You belong with your love on your arm You belong somewhere you feel free.
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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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I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.
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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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