It’s very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it’s really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music.
TOM PETTYOh yeah, alright, take it easy baby, make it last all night. She was an American Girl.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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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.
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I ain’t really sure, but it seems I remember the good times.
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A rebel without a clue.
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I got my own way of praying.
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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 stretch your imagination, I’ll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn’t up for sale.
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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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You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won’t back down.
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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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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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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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It’s funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can’t afford the music.
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Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
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We could move catalog, if he’d only die quicker.
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I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.
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