The waiting is the hardest part.
TOM PETTYI’m not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.
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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I like making money like anybody else, and I’m paid well, but I think there is a point at which you can out-price your audience or your base.
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If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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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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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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I’ve always had a great love for the blues.
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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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Some grow young, some grow cold.
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You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.
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Last dance with Mary Jane One more time to kill the pain I feel summer creepin’ in and I’m Tired of this town again.
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Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.
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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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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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Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
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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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