I’m not interested in the TV much. I quit watching the news a couple years ago and my outlook on life has gotten a whole lot better.
TOM PETTYRunning down a dream… working on a mystery… going wherever it leads.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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Oh yeah, alright, take it easy baby, make it last all night. She was an American Girl.
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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 wouldn’t want to get stuck being an oldie-goldie group, but I don’t mind. I think all the trouble you go through these days to go to one of these concerts, I think I owe them a bit of what they came to hear.
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Any time you’re making a living at what you love to do, you’re blessed.
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You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won’t back down.
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I’ve always had a great love for the blues.
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I would never put my songs in a commercial.
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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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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 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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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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There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.
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I don’t think it’s a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.
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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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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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