I never could have dreamed that her heart was so wicked, but I keep coming back because it’s so hard to kick it.
TOM PETTYMusic 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.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
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If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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I should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it’s such a drag when you’re livin’ in the past
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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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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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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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You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don’t take life for granted any more. I’m really glad to be here.
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I’m always having fun. Playing is fun. Music is fun.
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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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We could move catalog, if he’d only die quicker.
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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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I’m barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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There’s a freeway running through the yard.
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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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If you don’t run, you rust.
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