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.
TOM PETTYAnd the days went by like paper in the wind. Everything changed, then changed again. It’s hard to find a friend. It’s hard to find a friend.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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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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My sister got lucky, married a yuppie, and took him for all he was worth. Now she’s a swinger dating a singer, I can’t decide which is worse.
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Most things I worry about never happen anyway.
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Just wonderin’, waitin’, worryin’ about some silly little things, that just don’t add up to nothin’.
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There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.
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There’s a freeway running through the yard.
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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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God, it’s so painful when something that’s so close is still so far out of reach.
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I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.
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I’m not any happier anywhere than when I’m in the studio. I’m over the moon about it. It keeps me young, it keeps me feeling like I have some purpose.
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You believe what you want to believe.
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Any time you’re making a living at what you love to do, you’re blessed.
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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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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’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.
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