Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There’s not some trick involved with it. It’s pure and it’s real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.
TOM PETTYI always tell my kids, “Find something that you love and within that you’ll find some job that you can do and you’ll always be happy. You’ll go to a job that you want to go to.”
More Tom Petty Quotes
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I’ve got a room at the top of the world tonight. I can see everything tonight.
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Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can’t stay long.
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No matter how long you play the guitar, there’s always something else to learn.
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If you don’t run, you rust.
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Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you’ll be a happy person.
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At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.
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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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The waiting is the hardest part, every day you get one more yard. You take it on faith, you take it to the heart, the waiting is hardest part.
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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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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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There’s a freeway running through the yard.
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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 ain’t really sure, but it seems I remember the good times.
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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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Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?
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