Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I’m concerned, that’s success.
TOM PETTYSome grow young, some grow cold.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.
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A rebel without a clue.
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You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.
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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’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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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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I wouldn’t want to get stuck being an oldie-goldie group, but I don’t mind. I think all the trouble you go through these days to go to one of these concerts, I think I owe them a bit of what they came to hear.
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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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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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I think it’s important to always offer something new.
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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’m barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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I don’t treat the band like I’m above them or that they’re a hired hand for me. We’ve never worked that way. So I’m a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.
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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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At the end of the day, you’re just phonograph records.
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