I’ve never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I’m pleasantly surprised when it does.
TOM PETTYSome grow young, some grow cold.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I’m concerned, that’s success.
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I’ve always had a great love for the blues.
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We could move catalog, if he’d only die quicker.
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If you don’t run, you rust.
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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.
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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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I always liked the idea of the guitar – because cowboys played the guitar.
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I don’t believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there.
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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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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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So I started out for God knows where. I guess I’ll know when I get there.
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Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
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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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She’s a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
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