I’m not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.
TOM PETTYI don’t think it’s a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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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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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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You spend your life dreaming, running ’round in a trance, You hang out forever and still miss the dance, And if you get lucky, you might find someone, To help you get over the pain that will come.
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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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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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You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won’t back down.
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I never could have dreamed that her heart was so wicked, but I keep coming back because it’s so hard to kick it.
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God, it’s so painful when something that’s so close is still so far out of reach.
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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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She’s a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
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I’m not any happier anywhere than when I’m in the studio. I’m over the moon about it. It keeps me young, it keeps me feeling like I have some purpose.
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I’m learning to fly, but I ain’t got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.
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If you don’t run, you rust.
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I think for it to be hip to be idealistic is weird, you know? I mean, even all the best rebels to me, had some sense of hope in them.
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