There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.
TOM PETTYI’ve never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I’m pleasantly surprised when it does.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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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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I 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.”
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If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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At the end of the day, you’re just phonograph records.
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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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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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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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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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Redemption comes to those who wait, forgiveness is the key.
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Any time you’re making a living at what you love to do, you’re blessed.
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If you don’t run, you rust.
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I’m not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.
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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.
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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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