I’ve always had a great love for the blues.
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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Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
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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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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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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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Even the losers get lucky sometimes!
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Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.
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I’m not trying to be cool. I have a problem with lights. I have one eye that’s become super-sensitive to lighting, so I do wear sunglasses quite a bit.
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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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If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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The poison came in liquid, she was naked all the time.
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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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You belong somewhere you feel free.
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Some grow young, some grow cold.
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You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.
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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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Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I’m concerned, that’s success.
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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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I should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it’s such a drag when you’re livin’ in the past
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I’m actually better on the guitar than when I started, I think, because I’ve had so much time with it and I still practice and I love to do it and I love to sing.
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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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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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Excuse me if I have some place in my mind where I go time to time.
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She’s a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
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I got my own way of praying.
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I’m not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.
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You spend your life dreaming, running ’round in a trance, You hang out forever and still miss the dance, And if you get lucky, you might find someone, To help you get over the pain that will come.
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