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 PETTYI remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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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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I would never put my songs in a commercial.
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I’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.
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When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you’ve always got a different ache or pain.
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Even the losers get lucky sometimes. Even the losers keep a little bit of pride. They get lucky sometimes.
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I’m always having fun. Playing is fun. Music is fun.
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I have never been comfortable being the front man.
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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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Most things I worry about never happen anyway.
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Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.
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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 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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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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I’ll stand my ground and I won’t back down.
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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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