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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.

Tom Petty

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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Communication Healing Life Magic Move Music Myself Reality
Free Fallin” is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn’t become this huge anthem. But I’m grateful that people like it.
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Goodness Gratitude Oneself People
I would never put my songs in a commercial.
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Commercial Myself Song
You believe what you want to believe.
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Believe Yourself
You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.
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Hell Job Yourself
When 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.
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Generation Hate Kill Sister Yourself
Some grow young, some grow cold.
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Cold Growth Young
I ain’t really sure, but it seems I remember the good times.
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Goodness Myself Remember Time
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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Come Dance Dreams Forever Life Pain Yourself
Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?
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Abandonment Lose Yourself
I’m learning to fly, but I ain’t got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.
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Fly Hard Learning Myself Wings
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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Known Lying Move On Myself Time
I’ll stand my ground and I won’t back down.
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Down Ground Myself Stand
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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Health Mental Physical Thinking
I’m not any happier anywhere than when I’m in the studio. I’m over the moon about it. It keeps me young, it keeps me feeling like I have some purpose.
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Feeling Happiness Moon Myself Purpose Young
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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Audience Money Pay Price Yourself
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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Hope Ideal Myself Thinking Weird
A rebel without a clue.
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One Liner Rebel
You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don’t have to live like a refugee.
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Believe See Yourself
If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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Death Old Yourself
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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Children Happiness Job Love Passion Yourself
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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Artist Believe Herself Responsibility
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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Affordable Industry Internet Music Payment Steal Way
The waiting is the hardest part.
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Hard One Liner Patience
You were the one who made things different, you were the one who took me in. You were the one thing I could count on, above all, you were my friend.
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Count Different Friendship Yourself
She’s a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
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Goodness Horse Relationship Woman
I always liked the idea of the guitar – because cowboys played the guitar.
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Guitar Ideas Instrument Myself Play

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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