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.
TOM PETTYI’m not trying to be cool. I have a problem with lights. I have one eye that’s become super-sensitive to lighting, so I do wear sunglasses quite a bit.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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I’ve always had a great love for the blues.
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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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The waiting is the hardest part.
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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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I’m always having fun. Playing is fun. Music is fun.
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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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Yeah, the world would swing if I were king. Can I help it if I still dream time to time?
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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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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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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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Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
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Most things I worry about never happen anyway.
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If you don’t run, you rust.
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I have never been comfortable being the front man.
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