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.
TOM PETTYSome grow young, some grow cold.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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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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So I started out for God knows where. I guess I’ll know when I get there.
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Some grow young, some grow cold.
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Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.
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She’s a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
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I never could have dreamed that her heart was so wicked, but I keep coming back because it’s so hard to kick it.
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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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God, it’s so painful when something that’s so close is still so far out of reach.
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Last dance with Mary Jane One more time to kill the pain I feel summer creepin’ in and I’m Tired of this town again.
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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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There’s a freeway running through the yard.
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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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Music really isn’t supposed to be perfect. It’s all about people relating to each other and doing something that’s really from the soul. It must come from the soul.
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If I’d had to work at Taco Bell I’d have still been out at night trying to play music.
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