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.
TOM PETTYI have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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I’ve always had a great love for the blues.
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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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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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Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
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Let’s get to the point Let’s roll another joint.
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George Harrison was the kind of guy who wasn’t going to leave until he hugged you for five minutes and told you how much he loved you.
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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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Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
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I don’t understand the ones that have no sense of hope and invest in hate. That’s not gonna work out, you know? It’s a waste of your time!
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I love history, doesn’t matter what era, I’m fascinated.
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Honey, don’t walk out, I’m too drunk to follow.
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I think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck.
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I would never put my songs in a commercial.
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I’m barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won’t back down.
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