If I’d had to work at Taco Bell I’d have still been out at night trying to play music.
TOM PETTYYou and I will meet again, When we’re least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won’t say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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It’s funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can’t afford the music.
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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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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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I love the music. I’m never, ever tired of playing it.
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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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Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you’ll be a happy person.
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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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Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can’t stay long.
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You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don’t have to live like a refugee.
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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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I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.
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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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She’s a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
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Just wonderin’, waitin’, worryin’ about some silly little things, that just don’t add up to nothin’.
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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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