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.
TOM PETTYWhen you kill somebody’s little sister with a missile, he’s going to hate you forever. And the next generation will hate you even more.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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I love the music. I’m never, ever tired of playing it.
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I’m not interested in the TV much. I quit watching the news a couple years ago and my outlook on life has gotten a whole lot better.
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I got my own way of praying.
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Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
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I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.
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I don’t believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there.
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In a world that keeps on pushing me around, I’m gonna stand my ground, and I won’t back down.
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If you look around at America, that’s one of its biggest problems is you have corporations that can never be pleased at a profit.
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I like a good beer. Of course, I’ll drink a bad one too. Let no person thirst for lack of real ale! Thank god for long-necked bottles, the angel’s remedy.
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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.
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George Harrison was the kind of guy who wasn’t going to leave until he hugged you for five minutes and told you how much he loved you.
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I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.
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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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Running down a dream… working on a mystery… going wherever it leads.
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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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