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’m always having fun. Playing is fun. Music is fun.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?
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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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I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.
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How about a cheer for all those bad girls! And all those boys that play that rock ‘n’ roll! They love it like you love Jesus.
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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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Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
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I always tell my kids, “Find something that you love and within that you’ll find some job that you can do and you’ll always be happy. You’ll go to a job that you want to go to.”
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You belong somewhere you feel free.
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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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When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you’ve always got a different ache or pain.
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And the days went by like paper in the wind. Everything changed, then changed again. It’s hard to find a friend. It’s hard to find a friend.
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You and I will meet again, When we’re least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won’t say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again.
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I got my own way of praying.
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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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Running down a dream… working on a mystery… going wherever it leads.
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