I’m barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
TOM PETTYSomewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?
More Tom Petty Quotes
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Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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At the end of the day, you’re just phonograph records.
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You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.
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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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I would never put my songs in a commercial.
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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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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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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 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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A rebel without a clue.
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