If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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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If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.
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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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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 like a good beer. Of course, I’ll drink a bad one too. Let no person thirst for lack of real ale! Thank god for long-necked bottles, the angel’s remedy.
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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 think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.
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The waiting is the hardest part.
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I have never been comfortable being the front man.
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So I started out for God knows where. I guess I’ll know when I get there.
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I’ve never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I’m pleasantly surprised when it does.
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As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you’ll pay for what you used to get for free.
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I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.
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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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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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I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.
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