Redemption comes to those who wait, forgiveness is the key.
TOM PETTYI’m actually better on the guitar than when I started, I think, because I’ve had so much time with it and I still practice and I love to do it and I love to sing.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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I’m learning to fly, but I ain’t got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.
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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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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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I’ve always had a great love for the blues.
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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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You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don’t have to live like a refugee.
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The poison came in liquid, she was naked all the time.
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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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There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.
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I’m tired of screwing up. I’m tired of being down. I’m tired of myself. I’m tired of bein’ down.
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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 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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There’s a freeway running through the yard.
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I love the music. I’m never, ever tired of playing it.
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Running down a dream… working on a mystery… going wherever it leads.
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I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.
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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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We don’t really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we’ve been taken for granted.
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If you stretch your imagination, I’ll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn’t up for sale.
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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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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 would never put my songs in a commercial.
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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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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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How about a cheer for all those bad girls! And all those boys that play that rock ‘n’ roll! They love it like you love Jesus.
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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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