I have never been comfortable being the front man.
TOM PETTYI don’t treat the band like I’m above them or that they’re a hired hand for me. We’ve never worked that way. So I’m a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I’m concerned, that’s success.
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I would never put my songs in a commercial.
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God, it’s so painful when something that’s so close is still so far out of reach.
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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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Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can’t stay long.
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If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
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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 belong somewhere you feel free.
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Any time you’re making a living at what you love to do, you’re blessed.
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I think it’s important to always offer something new.
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I always liked the idea of the guitar – because cowboys played the guitar.
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If you don’t run, you rust.
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I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.
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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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