Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I’m concerned, that’s success.
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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Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
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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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Honey, don’t walk out, I’m too drunk to follow.
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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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It’s very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it’s really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music.
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There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.
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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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I love history, doesn’t matter what era, I’m fascinated.
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Any time you’re making a living at what you love to do, you’re blessed.
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Even the losers get lucky sometimes. Even the losers keep a little bit of pride. They get lucky sometimes.
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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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You believe what you want to believe.
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What I’ve learned about marriage: You need to have each other’s back; you have to be a kind of team going through life.
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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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You 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.
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