I’m actually better on the guitar than when I started, I think, because I’ve had so much time with it and I still practice and I love to do it and I love to sing.
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’ve always had a great love for the blues.
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The waiting is the hardest part.
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I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.
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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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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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There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.
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If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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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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Honey, don’t walk out, I’m too drunk to follow.
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I’m barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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Running down a dream… working on a mystery… going wherever it leads.
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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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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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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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Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?
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