As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you’ll pay for what you used to get for free.
TOM PETTYIf I’d had to work at Taco Bell I’d have still been out at night trying to play music.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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I think it’s important to always offer something new.
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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’m not interested in the TV much. I quit watching the news a couple years ago and my outlook on life has gotten a whole lot better.
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If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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If you stretch your imagination, I’ll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn’t up for sale.
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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’m learning to fly, but I ain’t got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.
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If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.
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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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I’m not any happier anywhere than when I’m in the studio. I’m over the moon about it. It keeps me young, it keeps me feeling like I have some purpose.
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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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Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
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Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you’ll be a happy person.
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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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If you don’t run, you rust.
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