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.
TOM PETTYWe don’t really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we’ve been taken for granted.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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Just wonderin’, waitin’, worryin’ about some silly little things, that just don’t add up to nothin’.
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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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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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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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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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Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I’m concerned, that’s success.
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In a world that keeps on pushing me around, I’m gonna stand my ground, and I won’t back down.
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I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.
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There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.
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I’m not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.
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Most things I worry about never happen anyway.
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Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.
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A rebel without a clue.
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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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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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