Even the losers get lucky sometimes. Even the losers keep a little bit of pride. They get lucky sometimes.
TOM PETTYIt’s very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it’s really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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Some grow young, some grow cold.
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I’m tired of screwing up. I’m tired of being down. I’m tired of myself. I’m tired of bein’ down.
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I’ve always had a great love for the blues.
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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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There’s a freeway running through the yard.
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If I’d had to work at Taco Bell I’d have still been out at night trying to play music.
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A rebel without a clue.
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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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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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Oh yeah, alright, take it easy baby, make it last all night. She was an American Girl.
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Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
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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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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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At the end of the day, you’re just phonograph records.
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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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